Logo
Quote by Doris Lessing
The great secret that all old people share is that you really have

The great secret that all old people share is that you really havent changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you dont change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. – Doris Lessing

Other quotes by Doris Lessing

I dont know much about creative writing programs. But theyre not telling the truth if they dont 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

Category:
Truth
Author
Doris Lessing
Read Quote

I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing

Category:
Women
Author
Doris Lessing
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

Category:
Age

Its getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen. – Julie Walters

Category:
Age

Where children are, there is the golden age. – Novalis

Category:
Age

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. – Frederick Jackson Turner

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception. – Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), “Autumn,” The Atlantic Almanac, 1868

Category:
October

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea? – Rupert Brooke

Category:
Heritage

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Miscellaneous

Im an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills. – Patti Stanger

Category:
Marriage