I never even heard of wikiquotes!Then I find a whole page on Lessing.Oddly.though I  read most of her books years ago I didn’t register most of these sentences.She is more than just a novelist,or should I say she is what novelists may aspire to be.,she thinks truthfully and with imagination

• • Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don’t seem to see this.
    • The Sunday Times, London (10 May 1992)
• It is terrible to destroy a person’s picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
  • The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)
• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
  • Particularly Cats, ch. 2 (1967)

And an interview from 1969 when she stayed with Studs Terkel in Chicago

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