In university they dont tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. – Doris Lessing
When youre young you think that youre going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. – Doris Lessing
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, reducing it to a simple formula. – Doris Lessing
I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing