Interview in Mexico, 1995
“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”
Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 10, “Love’s Proper Hue” Section 8 (p. 162)
“In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.”
Cited in: " Lebanese politics 'not a male affair only' http://mg.co.za/article/2005-05-25-lebanese-politics-not-a-male-affair-only " at Mail&Gardian, 25 May 2005.
A reference to the way many female politicians are the widows of male politicians who have been assassinated.
Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 136.
“Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!”
"Beauty," complete poem in The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Samuel Johnson ed., vol. 7, p. 115.
Women Don't Belong In Ground Combat, Phyllis Schlafly Columns, 2007-03-30, Schlafly, Phyllis, 2005-06-01 http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/june05/05-06-01.html,
“California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land.”
"Los Angeles", p. 159
Exhumations (1966)
Context: California is a tragic country — like Palestine, like every Promised Land. Its short history is a fever-chart of migrations — the land rush, the gold rush, the oil rush, the movie rush, the Okie fruit-picking rush, the wartime rush to the aircraft factories — followed, in each instance, by counter-migrations of the disappointed and unsuccessful, moving sorrowfully homeward.
“This is a beautiful country.”
Last words (2 December 1859), as quoted in John Brown and his Men https://books.google.com/books?id=uiaYWp66b-cC&pg=PR1&dq=John+Brown+and+his+Men+%281894%29+by+Richard+Josiah+Hinton&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Uub_VN3CN5HbggTdxIK4Cw&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=John%20Brown%20and%20his%20Men%20(1894)%20by%20Richard%20Josiah%20Hinton&f=false (1894) by Richard Josiah Hinton, p. 397.
As quoted in an undated profile at the BBC World Service http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/lessing_being.shtml
“It seems like I'm responsible for every crime that takes place in this country.”
