Doris Lessing Quotes
Novelist (1919 - 2013)

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At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

- Doris Lessing

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later, if ever.

Country Events Population Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

Coincidences are god's way of remaining anonymous.

- Doris Lessing

Coincidences are god's way of remaining anonymous.

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Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

- Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

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When there's a war, people get married.

- Doris Lessing

When there's a war, people get married.

War People Married Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

- Doris Lessing

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

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If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

- Doris Lessing

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

Thinking Indoctrination Think For Yourself Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

- Doris Lessing

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

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Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

- Doris Lessing

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

Women Thinking Numbers Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

Writers brought up in africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

- Doris Lessing

Writers brought up in africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic change. But in a long run it can also be a handicap: to wake up every morning with one's eyes on a fresh evidence of inhumanity; to be reminded twenty times a day of injustice, and always the same brand of it, can be limiting.

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What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

- Doris Lessing

What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their masochism is often the last thing they will say aloud - a man may overhear. Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.

Men Long Kitchen Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

- Doris Lessing

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Clever People Stupidity Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

- Doris Lessing

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

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The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

- Doris Lessing

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

Superstitions Worst Tolerable Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

- Doris Lessing

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

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I'll be pleased when i'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

- Doris Lessing

I'll be pleased when i'm dead. That will let me off worrying about all these wars.

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Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

- Doris Lessing

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

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Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

- Doris Lessing

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Our Society Collapse Dependent Month Calendar with this Quote Printable Folded Card Cursive Handwriting Worksheets Quote of the day Bulletin Board Posters

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... An awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

- Doris Lessing

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... An awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

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I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

- Doris Lessing

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

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Sometimes i pick up a book and i say: well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then i won't have to write it.

- Doris Lessing

Sometimes i pick up a book and i say: well, so you've written it first, have you? Good for you. O.K., then i won't have to write it.

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