I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and… — 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 Copy Share Image
If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to… — Grace Paley 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 Copy Share Image
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If… — Grace Paley 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
“Near home I ran through our park, where I had aired my children on weekends and late-summer afternoons. I stopped at the northeast playground,… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — 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 it and… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
