#thing

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

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

— Doris Lessing

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

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#equipped #everything #going #how #just

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

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

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#easy #easy thing #film #getting #making

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#more #off #shoes #situation #strange

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#am #appear #bearing #been #being

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#fascination #guess #i #thing #weight

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#defined #entirely #i #know #me