Quotes by : Doris Lessing

I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that....

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth....

Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing....

Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky....

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators....

There was a certain struggling fury that went with being jobless, and persevering, and being turned down,....

...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which....

But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people.....

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.