Doris Lessing

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.