List of Grace Paley Quotes

I'm Really Sorry For People Growing Up Right Now, Because They Have Some Cockeyed Idea That They Can Get By With Their Eyes Closed; The Cane They're Tapping Is Money, And That Won't Take Them In The Right Direction.

It's A Terrible Thing To Die Young. Still, It Saves A Lot Of Time.

No Metaphor Reinvents The Job Of The Nurture Of Children Except To Muddy Or Mock.

I Don't Believe Civilization Can Do A Lot More Than Educate A Person's Senses.

Write From What You Know Into What You Don't Know.

Paul Goodman Was Not Ahead Of His Time But In His Time.

I Was A Fantastic Student Until Ten, And Then My Mind Began To Wander.

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.

The Women's Movement Was Coming, But I Didn't Know It In 1956-1957, When I Began To Write.

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.

If I Miss Anything, It's Being Able To Hang Out In The City Of New York Meeting People And Talking To Them On The Corner.

When You Have A Peace Movement That Has An Actual War, It's Different From One That Has Wars That Our Country Is Not Totally Involved In. During The War In Vietnam, And To A Lesser Degree The Wars In Central America Where Our Country Was Directly Involved, It Was Easier To Organize.