Quotes by Grace Paley

“We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.”

“My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong...”

“The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I alw...”

“There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.”

“Write what will stop your breath if you dont write.”

“I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing ne...”

“I finally understood that I didnt lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative think...”

“Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)”

“My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would ...”

“To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.”

“The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.”

“Dont live with a lover or roommate who doesnt respect your work.”

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

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

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

“I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.”

“Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.”

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

“Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.”

“I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thin...”