I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation. Grace Paley accumulationbuilddrop share on social
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes. Grace Paley findimmigrantpage share on social
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. Grace Paley badfitgood Change image and share on social
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it. Grace Paley bringeventinterest Change image and share on social
A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift. Grace Paley giftimportantopportunity Change image and share on social
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. Grace Paley inventpeoplepleasure Change image and share on social
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 feltlivepoetry Change image and share on social
Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of. Grace Paley fullgasejunk share on social
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world. Grace Paley badlygloomygray Change image and share on social
Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. Grace Paley couragefearrage Change image and share on social
