We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. – Doris Lessing
I think kids ought to travel. I think its very good to carry kids around. Its good for them. Of course its tough on the parents. – 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
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. – Doris Lessing
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch American Idol and video their childrens concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. – Jodi Picoult