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.
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
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
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.
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.
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. - Grace Paley
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world. - Grace Paley
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. - Grace Paley
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
The only recognizable feature of hope is action. - Grace Paley
The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
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.
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