Doris Lessing

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1919 age 0

   Born

2. 2013 age 94

   Died

   CreditTwo Mothersscreenwriter

• RWRobin Wright1 title
• NWNaomi Watts1 title
• BMBen Mendelsohn1 title
• JFJames Frecheville1 title
• XSXavier Samuel1 title
• CHChristopher Hampton1 title
• DBDominique Besnehard1 title
• CGChristopher Gordon1 title
• PCPhilippe Carcassonne1 title
• CBChristophe Beaucarne1 title

• Partner

  • CSClancy Sigal

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

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  Photo:Oskars VizbulisPublic domain

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

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0

• 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. ... "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 maternity that made her blood boil. "Their babies hanging on them like leeches," she said to herself shuddering, for she thought with horror of suckling a child. The idea of a child's lips on her breasts made her feel quite sick; at the thought of it she would involuntarily clasp her hands over her breasts, as if protecting them from a violation. And since so many white women are like her, turning with relief to the bottle, she was in good company, and did n

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0

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

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0

• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0

• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Laughter is by definition healthy.

  Doris Lessing, CC BY-SA 4.0