Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative – despite what current ideology says. – Doris Lessing
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. – 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
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. – Doris Lessing