I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
- I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- 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.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- When there's a war, people get married.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
Best Quotes
- We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
- All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
- It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
- A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
- I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
- If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
- I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Power never defeated nor protected anybody; it's an act of courage and fear, nothing else.
- Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.