#m

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#happily #her #mother #seventies #stroke

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#any #become #i #regular #subculture

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

#goes #happened #history #ira #over

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#fame #obtain #others #people #some

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#i #i think #i write #quiet #sometimes

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#dialect #fiction #our #our time #science

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

The human race has been telling stories since it began. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#began #human #human race #race #since

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#children #endless #intelligent #more #nothing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#literature #now #people #respected #time