For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. – Doris Lessing
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. – Doris Lessing
I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the womens movement. – Doris Lessing
He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door. – Alexandre Dumas