Doris Lessing Quotes
Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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Bravery is often too sharp a spur.
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I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
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To be really honest, I don't love the gym.
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You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
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I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.
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Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.
