Top 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.

Literature is analysis after the event.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

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

When there's a war, people get married.

I am your original autodidact.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.