My 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 LessingI find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.
Doris LessingAll politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.
Doris LessingYou have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.
Doris Lessing