Doris Lessing Quotes and Quotations
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.
That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
What matters most is that we learn from living.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.