To be modest means that you have something to be modest about. — Grace Paley Humility Copy Share Image
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. — Grace Paley Astonishing 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… — Grace Paley Dream Copy Share Image
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. — Grace Paley Firsts Copy Share Image
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. — Grace Paley Business 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 Knows Copy Share Image
It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time. — Grace Paley Die young Copy Share Image
Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language. — Grace Paley Knows Copy Share Image
That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality. — Grace Paley Amazing book Copy Share Image
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. — Grace Paley Gloomy Copy Share Image
Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie… — Grace Paley All kinds Copy Share Image
I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their… — Grace Paley Eye Copy Share Image
As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties,… — Grace Paley Feels 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Books 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 Age Copy Share Image
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political… — Grace Paley Periods Copy Share Image
Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives.… — Grace Paley Activity Copy Share Image
My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active… — Grace Paley Active Copy Share Image
“Since I was a big reader, I might be able to accomplish something. I had no gift. That didn’t mean I must… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its… — Grace Paley Choking 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 About Copy Share Image
I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then… — Grace Paley Alive Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are… — Grace Paley Books Copy Share Image
“The abortion isn’t what they(conservative pro-life men of 1940s) are thinking about; they’re really thinking about sex. They’re really thinking about love… — Grace Paley Abortion Copy Share Image
“Edie didn't budge. She leaned her chin on her knees and felt sad. She was a big reader too, but she liked… — Grace Paley Family life Copy Share Image
“By love, she probably meant she would die without being in love. By in love, she meant the acuteness of the heart… — Grace Paley Friendship Copy Share Image
“I wanted a sailboat, he said. But you didn’t want anything. Don’t be bitter, I said. It’s never too late. No, he… — Grace Paley Bitterness Copy Share Image
“I unknot his tie and offer him a cold sandwich. He raps my backside, paying attention to the bounce. I walk around… — Grace Paley Gaze Copy Share Image
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having… — Grace Paley Cases Copy Share Image
Here I am in the garden laughing an old woman with heavy breasts and a nicely mapped face how did this happen… — Grace Paley Bigs Copy Share Image
