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