Grace Paley Quotes

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

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.

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 surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.