Doris Lessing

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#boy #growing #growing up #having #listen

They 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 before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#black #black and white #quite #simple #things

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#first #horrors #lessen #second #seem

We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#everything #like #solve #think

What 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 Lessing

#ever #feminist #horrible #i #most

What is a hero without love for mankind. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#love #mankind #without

What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#because #comes #examined #feminists #haven

When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#became #because #color #communist #ever

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look