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Doris Lessing

1919 - 2013

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.

  1. 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.

    Doris Lessing
    #heat#delight#sanity

  2. In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

    Doris Lessing
    #law#tolerance#wisdom

  3. Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

    Doris Lessing
    #trust#love#imperfection

  4. 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
    #change#perception#identity

  5. I never stopped reading.

    Doris Lessing
    #reading#persistence#knowledge

  6. Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

    Doris Lessing
    #action#urgency#potential