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

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What society doesnt realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they dont now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. – Doris Lessing

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Its lovely to have money to give away – thats the bonus of winning the Nobel. – Doris Lessing

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Theres 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

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