"I read the Children of Violence novels and began to understand how a person could write about the problems of the world in a compelling and beautiful way, and it seemed to me that was the most important thing I could ever do." — Barbara Kingsolver
"Absorbing reading...Lessing conveys with great clarity the emotions, aspirations and constant self-questing of Martha Quest, her most powerful character." — Sunday Times (London)
"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence." — New York Times Book Review
