Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CHwas a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 October 1919
funny mind small-things
Small things amuse small minds.
begging-you stealing lending
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
work age lasts
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
character thinking feminist
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
our-society collapse precarious
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
nobel nobel-prize hospitals
As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
inspiring mothers-day mother
All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
giving interviews spend-time
All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.
falling-in-love fall ideas
A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.
stories constructs
A story is how we construct our experiences.
color people political
When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.
dream parent use
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
black-and-white simple black-white
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
birthday time years
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.