Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
- 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.
- I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
- 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.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
- 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.
- 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.
- I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
Best Quotes
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.
- Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning.
- Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
- Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
- I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.
- Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.