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Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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The Bronx
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My mother went to demonstrations. I remember her going to a big demonstration for Earl Brower and she came home crying and said the Communists were very mean and booed their people. I remember feeling sad at her feeling sad.
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Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?
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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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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
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I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
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We write about what we don't know about what we know.
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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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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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You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.
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Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
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Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.
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I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
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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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Well, by now you must know yourself, honey, whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
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