I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. — Grace Paley Interest Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. — Grace Paley Child Copy Share Image
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. — Grace Paley Academic Copy Share Image
Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen. — Grace Paley Communication Copy Share Image
If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said.… — Grace Paley Ex husband Copy Share Image
“Still, it is like a long hopeless homesickness my missing those young days. To me, they're like my own place that I… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my own memorizing mind. It had been given away with a… — Grace Paley Creative thinking Copy Share Image
If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of… — Grace Paley Female Copy Share Image
When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your… — Grace Paley Breaths Copy Share Image
“My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I… — Grace Paley Children Copy Share Image
“Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia… — Grace Paley Ashtray Copy Share Image
“Oh no,” she says. Soft because I am the older one, but very strong. (I’ve noticed it. All of a sudden they… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and… — Grace Paley Age Copy Share Image
Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could… — Grace Paley Children Copy Share Image
“The men don’t like their wives so much. They only get married if it’s a good idea.” Faith” — Grace Paley Faith Copy Share Image
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley Antagonism Copy Share Image
“The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.” — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Dream Copy Share Image
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in… — Grace Paley Cities Copy Share Image
“Happy!" He leaned over the rail and tried to hold her eyes. But that is hard to do, for eyes are born… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“it is possible with only a little extra anguish to live in this world at absolute [minimum?] loving brainy sexual energetic redeemed” — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns… — Grace Paley Book Copy Share Image
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
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