Doris Lessing Quotes
Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.
Lessing, Doris. The Grass Is Singing. Michael Joseph, 1950.
He meant to say “repository” and not “suppository”. The latter is a capsule of medicine that is placed inside the rectum.
Doris May Lessing CH OMG (née Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British-Zimbabwean (Rhodesian) novelist. She was born to British parents in Iran, where she lived until 1925. Her family then moved to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where she remained until moving in 1949 to London, England. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Violence (1952–1969), The Golden Notebook (1962), The Good Terrorist (1985), and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos: Archives (1979–1983).
