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 Lessing 1 Share Now -
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. - Doris Lessing 2 Share Now -
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. - Doris Lessing 4 Share Now -
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. - Doris Lessing 5 Share Now -
Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance! - Doris Lessing 6 Share Now -
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. - Doris Lessing 7 Share Now -
What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared. - Doris Lessing 8 Share Now -
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. - Doris Lessing 9 Share Now -
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing 10 Share Now -
