The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. – Doris Lessing
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, theres a layer of people who run everything. But we –were just peasants. We dont understand whats going on, and we cant do anything. – Doris Lessing
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. – Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something youve understood all your life, but in a new way. – Doris Lessing
Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadnt the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us. – Henry Miller