This paper focuses on Martha’s quest for an ideal city and its realization in Doris Lessing’s Martha Quest(1952) and The Four-Gated City(1969). The central character, Martha Quest in the series Children of Violence which consists of five novels, Martha Quest, A Proper Marriage, A Ripple from the Storm, Landlocked, and The Four-Gated City seeks for an ideal city. In Martha Quest Martha lives in Southern Africa at the end of the First World War, through her adolescence, youth and marriage. She has anxiety about convention and racial discrimination and daydreams about an ideal city where everyone is equal and free. The Four-Gated City set in London just after WWII depicts Martha and Lynda’s arduous struggle to achieve self-transcendence. Her life at the Coldridge House in London has its focus on widening responsibility toward and understanding of others. In the two novels, it is shown that Martha dreams of an ideal city and makes the dream come true by achieving wholeness and practicing it in the society. Especially this paper examines Lessing’s view of the world through studying interviews and criticisms of Lessing with Martha Quest and The Four-Gated City.