Doris Lessing


The Golden Notebook
The Grass Is Singing
The Fifth Child (Vintage International)
Martha Quest (Children of Violence, #1)
The Diaries of Jane Somers
A Proper Marriage (Children of Violence, #2)
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (Canopus in Argos, #1)
The Good Terrorist
Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
The Memoirs of a Survivor
The Summer Before the Dark
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
Ben, In the World
Love, Again
A Ripple from the Storm (Children of Violence, #3)
Doris Lessing
The way to understand something is to watch what is happening. The results are the explanation.
Doris Lessing, Shikasta

Doris Lessing
We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.
Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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