When there's a war, people get married.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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When there's a war, people get married.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- 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 do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
- 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.
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
- Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- 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 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.
- What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
Best Quotes
- In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
- I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
- Don't be another cliche, the world already has your idol, now be your own idol, be you.
- Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
- My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?
- Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now.
- Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
- Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic.
- It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.
- Marriage equality changed life for people.