Doris May Lessingauthor profile |
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| born | October 22, 1919 |
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| gender | female |
| place of birth | Kermanshah, Iran, Islamic Republic of |
| website | http://www.dorislessing.org |
| genre | Literature & Fiction |
| influences | Idries Shah, Olive Schreiner, Simone de Beauvoir, Sartre, Dostoevsky, the Brontë sisters, Christina Stead, DH Lawrence, Stendhal, Virginia Woolf, Mikhail Bulgakov, Olaf Stapledon |
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about this author
Awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, commended as "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny." |
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books by Doris May Lessingcombine editionsavg rating: 3.70 | 3512 ratings | 105 distinct works see all books by Doris May Lessing » |
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quotes by Doris May Lessing
"Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself — educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.' "
— Doris May Lessing (The Golden Notebook)
— Doris May Lessing (The Golden Notebook)
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself."
— Doris May Lessing
— Doris May Lessing
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
— Doris May Lessing
— Doris May Lessing












