Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
Doris LessingMy 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.
Doris LessingNovels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.
Doris LessingPerhaps it is not such a bad marriage after all? There are innumerable marriages where two people, both twisted and wrong in their depths, are well matched, making each other miserable in the way they need, in the way the pattern of their life demands.
Doris LessingI wonder why do wars suddenly start and suddenly stop, and why do we Brits and you Americans get involved in some of them and not in others? Is it possible that the arms manufacturers quietly foment wars without us knowing? Dropping bombs is a very profitable business for them. Gore Vidal was talking about this the other day, and he made a lot of sense. Whenever American policy seems inscrutable, he said, remember the military-industrial complex. He's the one who should have been President.
Doris Lessing