Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. Doris Lessing
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing
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
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. Doris Lessing
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. Doris Lessing
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. Doris Lessing
I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world. Doris Lessing
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. Doris Lessing
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. Doris Lessing
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how. Doris Lessing