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Quotes by Doris Lessing
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- 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.
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- 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.
- Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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