When I became political and Communist, it was because they were the only people I had ever met who fought the color bar in their lives. Doris Lessing More Quotes by Doris Lessing More Quotes From Doris Lessing A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away. Doris Lessing falling-in-love ideas fall A story is how we construct our experiences. Doris Lessing constructs stories Things are not quite so simple always as black and white. Doris Lessing black-white black-and-white simple Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. Doris Lessing collapse dependent our-society I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. Doris Lessing feminist character thinking I never stopped reading. Doris Lessing reading I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading. Doris Lessing taught reading school I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. Doris Lessing married talent thinking I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning. Doris Lessing blair hated I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. Doris Lessing iran government hate I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city. Doris Lessing london cities hero September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible. Doris Lessing ira september-11 terrible Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them. Doris Lessing cutting stars people My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother. Doris Lessing frustrated brother mother My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies. Doris Lessing seventies strokes mother My father was in the First World War. Doris Lessing war father world Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says. Doris Lessing adventurous conservative men It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. Doris Lessing months book years In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better. Doris Lessing process stories writing I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot. Doris Lessing bloody winning europe
