Doris Lessing

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

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA…

I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women…

I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if…

When you’re young you think that you’re going to sail into a lovely lake of…

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way…

It’s lovely to have money to give away – that’s the bonus of winning the Nobel…

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second…

In university they don’t tell you that the greater part of the law is learning…

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like…

I think kids ought to travel. I think it’s very good to carry kids around…

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating…

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women’s movement…

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don’t…

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier…