"I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I." ― Doris Lessing Topic(s): War More From Doris Lessing "There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best." "What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness." "I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women." More In War "I had the first integrated Army band in World War II."― Dave Brubeck "I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies."― M. Night Shyamalan "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."― George Washington