Grace Paley

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life. ”

Most of the Women's Libbers I knew really didn't want to have a piece of the men's pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didn't even want a slice of. ”

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty. ”

I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building into the second wave of the women's movement. I didn't know my small-drop presence or usefulness in this accumulation. ”

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it. ”

A relationship with young people is very important to me. It's important to have a sense of what's going on in their world and not just in my own. So the opportunity teaching provides is a gift. ”

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life. ”

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. ”

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty. ”

Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream. ”