I have a daughter and two grand-daughters and a great grandson in Africa, in Cape Town.
Doris LessingHow boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.
Doris LessingThere was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Doris LessingVery few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.
Doris LessingIt has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.
Doris Lessing