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
long erotic mind
You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
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.
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know....
jokes
A joke is necessary at this time.
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.
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.
baby children crazy
A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.
long rewards life-is
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
able
You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.
men feet games
What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
reading literature university
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
blood people stories
There isn't a story written that isn't about blood and money. People and their relationship to each other is the blood, the family. And how they live, the money of it.