Doris Lessing Quotes and Sayings
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. ~ Doris Lessing. In every city there is a group of middle-aged and elderly women who in fact run it. The extent to which they are formally organised is no gauge of their real power. The way in which they respond to danger is that gauge; and the frankness with which they express their intentions can be measured by the extent of the danger. ~ Doris Lessing. When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip. ~ Doris Lessing. It’s not a terrible thing — I mean, it may be terrible, but it’s not damaging, it’s not poisoning, to do something one wants. ~ Doris Lessing. |
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