Doris Lessing

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like…

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed…

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

My father was in the First World War…

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

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but…

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had…

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you…

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says…

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can…

What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from…

All my friends’ mothers were appalling women…

What society doesn’t realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected…

When there’s a war, people get married…

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in…