574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even in the long run to start thinking.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.