“ All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar. Grace Paley
“ The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. Grace Paley
“ We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid. Grace Paley
“ I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about h… Grace Paley
“ My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would sur… Grace Paley
“ I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neigh… Grace Paley
“ My daughter has pointed out that there were not enough lovejobs to go around in this new world. In any event, I probably learned tolerance, maybe even literary affection for the person in the wrong hi… Grace Paley
“ I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinkin… Grace Paley
“ The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always… Grace Paley
