"Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse."
― Doris Lessing
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Society
― Doris Lessing
More From Doris Lessing
- "The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
- "I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I."
- "I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that ‘nothing succeeds like success.’"
More In Society
- "Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups."― Paul Ryan
- "Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning."― Marlo Thomas
- "The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"― John Lennon