It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing
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
What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing