Forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
—Doris Lessing
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one’s unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
—Doris Lessing
Topics: Experience
The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.
—Doris Lessing
It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
—Doris Lessing
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
—Doris Lessing
Topics: Genius
What is a hero without love for mankind.
—Doris Lessing
Topics: Heroes/Heroism, Heroes
It is individuals who change societies, give birth to ideas; who standing out against tides of opinion, change them.
—Doris Lessing
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
—Doris Lessing
Topics: Self-reliance, Confidence, Judgment, Thinking
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
—Doris Lessing
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