Top 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

About Doris Lessing

These are some quotes by English author Doris Lessing Writer, who lived between October 22, 1919 and November 17, 2013.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.

Doris Lessing

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring.

Doris Lessing

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

Doris Lessing

Literature is analysis after the event.

Literature is analysis after the event.

Doris Lessing

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Doris Lessing

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

Doris Lessing

When there's a war, people get married.

When there's a war, people get married.

Doris Lessing

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

My father was always so mingled with rage at his life.

Doris Lessing

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Doris Lessing

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

Doris Lessing

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