For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.
Doris LessingI have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
Doris LessingBut it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.
Doris LessingI never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
Doris LessingLittle Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
Doris Lessing