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
- You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
- 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 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.
- Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
- 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.
- Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
- 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.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Best Quotes
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain
- The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity, assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God, or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.
- Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.
- What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
- Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
- Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
- The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female.