Grace Paley's Quotes

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.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

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

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

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

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

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

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

Who can refute a sneer?