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Grace Paley [1922-2007] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Short story writer

Grace Paley was an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist.

Beauty, Courage, Dreams, Fear, Strength

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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.	Courage, Fear	101
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.	Beauty, Strength	102
Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.	Dreams	103
If you want to do things, do things.		104
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.		105
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.		106
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.		107
'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn't think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That's the only way you get it sometimes.		108
Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.		109
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.		110
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.		111
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.		112
I often see through things right to the apparition itself.		113
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.		114
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.		115
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.		116
You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.		117
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.		118
That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.		119
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.		120
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.		121
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.		122
What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.		123
Poets take themselves very seriously.		124
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.		125
Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived in.		126
I developed a definition - which I think becomes less and less accurate as poetry moves into the world - that poetry was a way of speaking to the world, but fiction was a way to get the world to speak to me.		201
In prose, I think you sometimes have to write in very plain language, where every line may not seem to be so important, though in all writing every line is important.		202

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