It 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 LessingI am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.
Doris LessingWords. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.
Doris LessingMen are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.
Doris Lessing