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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.

Grace Paley

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Grace Paley
Age: 84 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 11
Died: 2007
Died: August 21
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
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My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
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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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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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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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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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When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.
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You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
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Art's too long and life's too short.
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The only recognizable feature of hope is action.
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I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
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I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
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