I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – 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
I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – 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
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing
What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing
Im 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, Id only be 48. Thats the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. – James Thurber
Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. – Jerry Saltz