Grace Paley

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world. ”

You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing. ”

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong. ”

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class. ”

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education. ”