#ere

All my friends' mothers were appalling women. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#friends #mothers #were #women

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#destroy #himself #interests #other #person

It's very interesting what you don't care about. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#care #interesting #very #you

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

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

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#heretic #his #man #own #sees

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me. ↗

— Jared Leto

#early #examples #how #i #learned

I don't fight anybody anytime or anywhere. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#anytime #anywhere #fight #i

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#artist #artists #connects #example #father