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I think a lot of people feel like their lives are out of control, and that they're overloaded. Frequently, somehow, things are no longer predictable for them, and I think that creates a lot of pressure.


Doris Kilgore

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DORIS LESSING For women like me, integrity isn't chastity, it isn't fidelity, it isn't any of the old words. Integ...
DORIS LESSING I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature in...
DORIS LESSING Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say w...
DORIS LESSING People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.
DORIS LESSING I was filled with such a dangerous delicious intoxication that I could have walked straight off the ...
DORIS LESSING I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly...
DORIS LESSING How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want...
DORIS LESSING We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths ...
DORIS LESSING Because I was permanently confused, dissatisfied, unhappy, tormented by inadequacy, driven by wantin...
DORIS LESSING Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
DORIS LESSING For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a w...
DORIS LESSING Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits ...
DORIS LESSING Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people...
DORIS LESSING Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish th...
DORIS LESSING You can call me an older woman - I don't mind that at all - just don't call me an old one, b...
DORIS ROBERTS I asked a member of the crew if I could have the sheets that Jon and George laid on autographed and ...
DORIS PINTER There's no magazine you open, unless its AARP, that shows a woman over the age of 45 in any othe...
DORIS ROBERTS The worse thing I could have done is to live with a man and not be married. That was the worse thing...
DORIS PAYNE It's not the fun it used to be. I'm sure I won't be there next year.
DORIS NORTHAM I told everybody all year long that we've got a good team. To me, they just seem so aggressive.
DORIS NORTHAM When I was a kid, you know, you went to church and you went to ball games. And that was your enterta...
DORIS NORTHAM It was my firm conviction, then and now, that we did the right thing on April 22, and we are doing i...
DORIS MEISSNER That told us we had to be prepared for anything.
DORIS MEISSNER found the family functioning very well as a family.
DORIS MEISSNER They need more space and they need more privacy.
DORIS MEISSNER held in virtual slavery.
DORIS MEISSNER