Grace Paley Quotes

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

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing"ﾂ杯hat's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

The only recognizable feature of hope is action.

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

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?

"ﾂｦI go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.

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

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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