Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing. - Grace Paley
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
- Grace Paley
The only recognizable feature of hope is action. - Grace Paley
The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog. - Grace Paley
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world. - Grace Paley
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. - Grace Paley
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. - Grace Paley
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. - Grace Paley
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others. - Grace Paley
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. - Grace Paley
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.
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