Under My Skin Quotes

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
― Doris May Lessing, UNDER MY SKIN--VOLUME ONE OF MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY

“Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.”
― Doris Lessing , Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.”
― Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

“She had taken a degree in Domestic Science in a college in northern England, and used notebooks from her class to order the household’s meals. Sunday: roast beef. Monday: collops with sippets of toast (mince). Tuesday: beef stew. Wednesday: brawn. Thursday: steak and kidney pie. Friday: stewed oxheart. Saturday: tripe and onions. To be a white housewife was hardly arduous.”
― Doris Lessing, Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949