"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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
Doris Lessing"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Doris Lessing"I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married."
Doris Lessing"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."
Doris Lessing