Doris Lessing (1919-2013)

Doris May Lessing was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007.

Quotes

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.

Age
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Learning, Understanding
Laughter is by definition healthy.

Laughter
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.

Happiness
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.