Our favorite salty old lady Doris Lessing is still all grumpy about having won the 2007 Nobel Prize for literature, calling it a "bloody disaster." She says that all the attention has been less than constructive, "All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed." The 88-year-old also says that she's no…

It must be really awesome to be so old and admired that you can say whatever the fuck you want. Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing, a Jezebel favorite, told a Stockholm paper that she believes Obama will be assassinated if he is elected president. The 88-year-old pistol said, "[Obama] would probably not last long, a…

Nobel Prize winner and official Jezebel hot bitch Doris Lessing is too sick to attend her Nobel award ceremony in Stockholm. We're hoping for your speedy recovery, Doris!

Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing really does live by the Jezebel mantra "fuck discretion." In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais, Lessing took aim at the most taboo of subjects: 9/11. "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that…

Looks like we're not the only ones on the internet who think Doris Lessing is a hot bitch. Since she was declared the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, Lessing's MySpace profile has been inundated with friend requests. Though Doris does not maintain the page herself, her extant stats include:…

Doris Lessing is an awesomely salty old bitch. This morning when she was told about her Nobel Prize win, Doris's first reaction was, "Oh Christ! ... I couldn't care less." Lessing continued, "I can't say I'm overwhelmed with surprise. I'm 88 years old and they can't give the Nobel to someone who's dead, so I think… Read more

Doris Lessing, the author of feminist mainstay The Golden Notebook, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature today, the 11th woman to receive the honor. Lessing, who was attacked as "unfeminine" when The Golden Notebook debuted in 1962, responded by saying: "Apparently what many women were thinking, feeling,…