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
goodman
Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.
writing numbers omission
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
education philosophy believe
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
mind students fantasy
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
mother mean home
My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
eye thinking people
I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.
art long too-short
Art's too long and life's too short.
art life-is-too-short long
Art is too long, and life is too short,
should-have political periods
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.
apparitions
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
writing add four
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
sometimes
Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.