It is terrible to destroy a persons picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. – 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
Theres an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. – Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing