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List of Grace Paley Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 75 inspiring quotes by Grace Paley.

About Grace Paley

  • Born: December 11, 1922
  • Died: August 22, 2007
  • Occupation: Writer
    • 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.
    Growing Up Sorry Eye
    It's a terrible thing to die young. still, it saves a lot of time.
    Young Terrible Stills
    No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.
    Jobs Children Metaphor
    I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
    Education Philosophy Believe
    Write from what you know into what you don't know.
    Writing Crafts Knows
    Paul goodman was not ahead of his time but in his time.
    Goodman
    I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
    Mind Students Fantasy
    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.
    Mother Home Mean
    The women's movement was coming, but i didn't know it in 1956-1957, when i began to write.
    Writing Movement Knows
    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.
    Eye Thinking People
    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.
    New York Talking Cities
    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.
    Country War America
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