Top 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

I do have a sense, and I've never not had it, of how easily things can vanish.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

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

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

I am your original autodidact.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

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

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.