More From Doris Lessing
- "I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I’ve been much happier unmarried than married."
- "I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I."
- "What the feminists want of me is something they haven’t examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness."
More In War
- "Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us."― Louise Brown
- "My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform."― Eric Liu
- "War is a profane thing."― Norman Schwarzkopf