September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Doris LessingThe Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
Doris LessingI do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
Doris LessingThe older I get the more secrets I have, never to be revealed and this, I know, is a common condition of people my age. and why all this emphasis on kissing and telling? Kisses are the least of it.
Doris LessingWe do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.
Doris LessingI wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
Doris LessingA woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Doris Lessingwe have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.
Doris LessingThey can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now.
Doris LessingIt 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 don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.
Doris Lessing