It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – 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
What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing
Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher