Grace Paley Quotes

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

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

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

‏Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.

Remembering is organized for significance (not usefulness)