It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris LessingWhat I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
Doris LessingAfrica gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.
Doris Lessing