Doris Lessing

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic.