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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Doris Lessing

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Doris Lessing

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.

Doris Lessing

I haven't got the energy to write now.

Doris Lessing

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

Doris Lessing

When there's a war, people get married.

Doris Lessing

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Doris Lessing

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

Doris Lessing

Small things amuse small minds.

Doris Lessing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Doris Lessing

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Doris Lessing

I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's not that you say, 'I want to write a science fiction book.' You start from the other end, and what you have to say dictates the form of it.

Doris Lessing

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Doris Lessing

There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.

Doris Lessing

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives.

Doris Lessing

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Doris Lessing

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.

Doris Lessing

Pearls mean tears.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

Literature is analysis after the event.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing

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

Doris Lessing