Doris Lessing Quotes About Growing Up

Quotes about: Growing Up

• At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

• Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Women, Unique

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

• 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

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "'I have nothing in common with feminists. They never seem to think that one might enjoy men'". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

• [On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable?

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “Under my skin”

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