The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing quote Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Doris Lessing quote I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing quote In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools
Doris Lessing quote None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
Doris Lessing quote Biography
English writer, 1919-
