Author of quotes: Doris Lessing. Page 3

Never read books from a false sense of duty, or due to the fact that they belong to some kind of course or direction. Remember that book that you think is boring in twenty or thirty years, will open its doors for you when you are forty or fifty - and Vice versa.

Children are taught to obey authority, learn to seek out the opinions of others and learn about other people's solutions, learn how to quote and comply with the standards. They are prisoners of the ideas and dogmas of his time.

Are you looking for a man who knows the answers to all the damned questions and be able to say: do this, do that. And such a beast not exist.

Don't know how to live, is the privilege of the rich.

If not marriage, would she become something outstanding in your field? Women like not so often become professors.

She pictured the face of a polite smile, behind which, as behind a good screen, you could think about something else.

Women are increasingly more often anxiously aware that not only the words she uttered, and many thoughts that came to her mind, was removed from someone else's hanger and wore it on himself - most importantly, feelings, exhausting her at the same time, does not match neither those words nor thoughts.