A Quote by Doris Lessing

And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It is a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.

Doris Lessing

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About Achieve Aged Anonymous Become Expecting Freedom Invisible Middle Middle-Aged Move Notices Positive Then Thing Unnoticed Wonderful

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Doris Lessing
English - Novelist
October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

Doris Lessing

The wonderful part about me and Manek getting engaged is that it has given so many middle-aged people hope who have suddenly realized that love is possible and future relationships can be strong, vibrant and wonderful.

Pooja Bedi

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television, and yet they are absolutely invisible.

Samantha Bond

The middle-aged woman is the ground bed of the audience that watches television and yet they are absolutely invisible.

Samantha Bond

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

C. S. Lewis

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing.

C. S. Lewis

One great thing about being a black man is that if you put on a hat, you can move around unnoticed.

Deval Patrick

I suppose middle-aged love is interesting for middle-aged people.

Phyllis Logan

Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, who move differently than government bureaucrats.

Brad Bird

When I was trying to achieve my goal, I started training. I became a character, and everyone was expecting me to become the 'Prince of...' or the Middle-Eastern, and I wanted to wear a mask, and I wanted to be like a luchador from Mexico. And people asked me, 'Why are you putting a mask on?' And the truth is, I did not want to deal with who I was.

Mustafa Ali

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

I have become that middle-aged woman who listens to the 'Hamilton' soundtrack in my kitchen.

Sophie Dahl

My thing is just staying positive. Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it. You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.

Derrick Rose

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,... is there a positive way to say obsessive? It's a good thing and if you're out there and you're working on something right now and you're crazed and you're up in the middle of the night, or you can't stop thinking about it, or you have to keep reading other things about the subject that you're working on or whatever. That's good and I think that's necessary creatively.