You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Doris LessingMen are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris LessingNovels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
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 Lessing