I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the… — 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
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
I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how… — 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 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
