Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Grace Paleywas an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth11 December 1922
CountryUnited States of America
real writing vocabulary
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 surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.
mean order years
If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.
writing people trying
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
writing needs
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
generations next meaning-of-life
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
mean pie poison
Most of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.
long rewards life-is
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
want ifs
If you want to do things, do things.
dream honey know-yourself
Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
father kids eye
People say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
jokes
A joke is necessary at this time.
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.