Author: Grace Paley

Quotes

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- Grace Paley

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

- Grace Paley

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

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