What the feminists want of me is something they havent examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. – Doris Lessing
I dont think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. – Doris Lessing
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I cant say I do like it very much. – Doris Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. – Theodore Roosevelt, seventh annual message, 3 December 1907