That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. – Doris Lessing
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed. – 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
I had so many offers after True Blood for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Balls vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And Ive always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and Ive never really had the chance to do that. – Michelle Forbes