574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

Small things amuse small minds.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

I never stopped reading.

No one's noticed. So much is destroyed, we can't be bothered.

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.

A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?" In the same way, we never thought to ask, "How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?