Doris Lessing Quotes

You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?

Doris Lessing

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Women
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Men
  • Women
  • Water

• When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Alone
  • Sleep
  • I Can

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Alone
  • Desire
  • Moment

• The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Women
  • Fun

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

  

  Venus Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • Long

• In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

  

  Veruschka von Lehndorff
  • Women
  • Free
  • Fashion

• Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Facts
  • Errors
  • Overthrow

• I'm proud to carry that torch and be like, 'I'm gay! I'm black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I'll carry them to the best of my ability.'

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Black
  • Proud
  • Gay

• People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Important
  • Creative
  • Leader

• You want me to begin a novel with The two women were alone in the London flat?

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Women
  • Alone