I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents. - Doris Lessing
You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
- Doris Lessing
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. - Doris Lessing
Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real demo… - Doris Lessing
Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real demo…
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutalit… - Doris Lessing
This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational creatures. Everywhere we look we see brutalit…
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our e… - Doris Lessing
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our e…
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable. - Doris Lessing
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself. - Doris Lessing
People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.
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 … - Doris Lessing
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 …
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