Doris Lessing Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think the meaning of abortion is what the woman says it is: For a woman who wants a child but can't have this one, it can be sad; for a woman who doesn't want a baby, it can feel like a huge relief, like having your whole life given back to you.
-
I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
-
I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
-
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
-
I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
-
There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced when I was in second grade. I moved around a lot. Actually, I went to about four different schools when I was in fourth grade.
-
The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.
-
Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.
-
If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
-
For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
-
When I was thirteen years old, I didn't exactly discover epic fantasy on my own. I acquired it as a social defence mechanism.
-
Retire? I will never retire.
-
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
-
Little things are big.
-
I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.
-
I study chess eight hours a day, on principle.
-
The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams,The eternal asker of answers, stands in the street,And lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.
-
Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
-
The fact is that I made a stand a number of times in my career, and I did it because I knew I was right.
-
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
-
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
-
I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.
-
Indeed, collective triumph will also depend both on the application of reason and the recognition that a great deal of knowledge is indeterminate and may be temporally, spatially and perhaps culturally constrained.
-
What matters most is that we learn from living.
