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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
Activist
Teacher
Writer
The Bronx
New York City
Philosophy
Education
Body
Persons
Soma
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Believe
Senses
Medicine
Civilization

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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.
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I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.
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Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
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I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.
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I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
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If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.
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When I was about twenty-one, I published a few poems. Maybe I wrote a couple of stories before, but I really began to write stories in my mid-thirties. My kids were still little, and they were in school and day care, and I had begun to think a lot about wanting to tell some stories and not being able to do it in poetry.
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Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.
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In the park I met other women and I started to get interested in their lives. I developed a lot of pressure to talk about women's lives, and children's lives, too. Children interest me tremendously.
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Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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People will sometimes say, Why don't you write more politics? And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
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We write about what we don't know about what we know.
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If you want to do things, do things.
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The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
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