The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing Music attacks my inner ear like an antagonist, it's not my world. Doris Lessing antagonist ears world [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable? Doris Lessing growing-up girl mother I don't think that Women's Liberation will change much though -- not because there is anything wrong with their aims, but because it is already clear that the whole world is being shaken into a new pattern by the cataclysms we are living through: probably by the time we are through, if we do get through at all, the aims of Women's Liberation will look very small and quaint. Doris Lessing looks world thinking What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? Doris Lessing unendurable october months Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber, for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. Doris Lessing kings air bible Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size. Doris Lessing cutting names people I woke up one morning, and I couldn't move my arm. It was the oddest thing, the paralysis. I called up a friend and said, "I think I've had a stroke," and, in fact, that's what my doctor told me. It wasn't terrible, but it was enough to scare me. Now I think about death all the time. I have my death arm, my right arm. Doris Lessing morning moving thinking I think novelists perform many useful tasks for their fellow citizens, but one of the most valuable is this: to enable us to see ourselves as others see us. Doris Lessing novelists tasks thinking You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs. Doris Lessing real air feelings Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society which has not yet taken place. Doris Lessing information taken book You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. Doris Lessing etc wise years What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible. Doris Lessing feminist people world 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 empires girl ideas This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. Doris Lessing running people world There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful. Doris Lessing growing-up girl boys I do not think writers or anybody would sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge. Doris Lessing down-and writing thinking Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew. Doris Lessing bores mets 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 empires southern found When there's a war, people get married. Doris Lessing married war people What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness. Doris Lessing feminist bears want
