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Doris Lessing Quotes

There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

Doris Lessing

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

Man Growing Up Society Growing Young

I know NBC pays my salary but I have never doubted who I work for. I think about the people who watch. They're the ones who matter to me.

Ann Curry

Work People Me Think Know Salary

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

John Wooden

Love Hate Love Is World Important

I always talk about a great-fitting pair of jeans. Girls are concerned about the way their butt looks in a pair of jeans, and I think a guy having a really great-fitting pair of jeans is just as important.

John Varvatos

Think Looks Important Butt Way Talk

Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy, the deepest human longings.

Stephen Hough

Music School Winning Human Deepest

I've always had the wish, the need, and the obsession to become a public poet.

Tony Harrison

Wish Become Need Always Poet Public

As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison.

Tom Cotton

Prison Think Conversation Party Want

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

Mind Eye Only Prepared Comprehend

I don't necessarily always feel happy when I'm skating.

Mirai Nagasu

Happy Feel Skating Always

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

Brit Hume

Business People Think Language You

I'm obsessed with muffins.

Phoebe Tonkin

Obsessed Muffins

I am criticized for getting jobs because of my name, but I only use it when I have to.

Susan Ford

I Am Name Because Only Use Getting

You look at the pillars of the state: politics, the media, police, lawyers - they've all got their formal role, and then nestling above that is that power elite who are networked in through soft, social links, that are actually running the show. Why didn't I know that 10 years ago, and why didn't I rail against it? Why did I become part of it?

Tom A. Watson

Power Politics Police Media Look