Top 116 Quotes by Doris Lessing

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

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

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

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

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

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

The thing is, I haven't changed at all.

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

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!