574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.

The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.

I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not an idle interest, but a deliberate attempt to strengthen the power of that "other eye," which we can use to judge ourselves.

I have to conclude that fiction is better at 'the truth' than a factual record,

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she had turned imperceptibly into one of those women who have become old without ever having been middle aged: a little withered, a little acid, hard as nails, sentimentally kindhearted, and addicted to religion or small dogs.

I think a lot of romanticizing has gone on with the women's movement.