"We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed." ― Doris Lessing Topic(s): Dreams More From Doris Lessing "I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I." "I don’t think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women." "My father was in the First World War." More In Dreams "I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being."― Maria Montessori "The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that’s just got to be the name. That was in 1975."― Graham Russell