Quotes doris lessing biography and works

Doris Lessing (22 October1919 – 17 November2013) was a British writer, born Doris May Tayler.

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In October 2007, Lessing became the eleventh woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in its 106-year history, and its oldest ever recipient.

See also: Canopus in Argos

Quotes

1950–1999

• It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

• The three men looked at the murderer, thinking their own thoughts, speculative, frowning, but not as if he were important now.

  No, he was unimportant: he was the constant, the black man who will thieve, rape, murder, if given half a chance. ...

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"I work hard enough, don't I? All day I am down on the lands with these lazy black savages, fighting them to get some work out of them. ... Above all, she hated the way they suckled their babies, with their breasts hanging down for everyone to see; there was something in their calm satisfied mate