Grace Paley Quotes

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good ba...

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good ba...

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life...

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or profes...

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without...

My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In a...

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journ...

I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is ...

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given a...