“It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.” — Doris Lessing Quote

“It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.”

“Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.”

“God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.”

“I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.”

“Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?”

“Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.”