574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I've always disliked words like inspiration. Writing is probably like a scientist thinking about some scientific problem, or an engineer about an engineering problem.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

But children can't be a center of life and a reason for being. They can be a thousand things that are delightful, interesting, satisfying, but they can't be a well-spring to live from. Or they shouldn't be.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.