Doris Lessing

When there's a war, people get married. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get married #married #people #war

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#bit #british #british empire #did #empire

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

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#civil servant #married #red #servant #you

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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