Quotes from Salon interview — Doris Lessing
1919–2013 England
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All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies.
Salon interview (1997)
There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.
Salon interview (1997)
And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.
Salon interview (1997)
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.
Salon interview (1997)