Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.The Golden Notebook, 1962
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Doris Lessing (1919–2013) was a British novelist, poet, playwright, and short story writer. She is best known for her novel "The Golden Notebook," an exploration of the inner lives of women. Lessing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 for her prolific and socially conscious body of work.
1919–2013·lived 94 years
Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.The Golden Notebook, 1962
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.Martha Quest, 1952
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.The Golden Notebook, 1962
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.
I never stopped reading.
That’s all 6 quotes by Doris Lessing.