Doris Lessing Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Strokes, Seventies

• My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Brother, Frustrated

  Doris May Lessing (1996). “Putting questions differently: interviews with Doris Lessing, 1964-1994”

• Mother's room, and mother's need for privacy become a valuable lesson in respect for other people's rights.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, Rights, People

• [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”

• All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mother

• I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

  Doris Lessing

  Mother, War, Writing

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