I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. Ive been much happier unmarried than married. – Doris Lessing
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – Doris Lessing

I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. Ive been much happier unmarried than married. – Doris Lessing
There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they dont. – 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
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I. – Doris Lessing
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it. – Jhumpa Lahiri