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
Doris Lessing quotes about
profound might pressure
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.
successful consciousness type
Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness.
bothered destroyed
No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.
integrity fidelity chastity
For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integrity is the orgasm. That is something I haven't any control over.
mutual-help mind different
Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.
party self views
Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.
summer garden eggplant
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.
accepting stills knows
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
thought-provoking youth provoking
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
superstitions worst tolerable
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
dimensions way building
I would not be at all surprised to find out . . . that the dimensions of buildings affect us in ways we don't guess.
red married servant
You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
daughter two towns
I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
time
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!