Author: Grace Paley

Quotes

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

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

- Grace Paley

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

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

- Grace Paley

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

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

- Grace Paley

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

- Grace Paley

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

- Grace Paley

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

- Grace Paley

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.

- Grace Paley

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

- Grace Paley

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