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.
From Doris Lessing
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. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
A story is how we construct our experiences.
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.
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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