• Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

    Doris Lessing: Anna was saying to herself:  why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do?  It's childish, why should they?  What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.
    Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.31, HarperCollins UK