There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris LessingI wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris LessingThere's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.
Doris Lessing