#me

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

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

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

For me, London is and always will be home. ↗

— Clive Owen

#home #london #me #will

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

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. ↗

— Willie Nelson

#from time to time #hurt #sad #time

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#anything #bore #i #knew #me

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#escape #fact #first #five #i