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
generations next meaning-of-life
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
able
You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
children chinese littles
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
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.
real destiny deserve
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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.
children women important
Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.
jokes
A joke is necessary at this time.
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.