After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before.
Doris LessingI stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the window. I could see myself lying on the pavement. Then I seemed to be standing by the body on the pavement. I was two people. Blood and brains were scattered everywhere. I knelt down and began licking up the blood and brains
Doris LessingMother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.
Doris LessingThere was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
Doris Lessing