American - Writer | December 11, 1922 - August 22, 2007
I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.
Grace Paley
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Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.
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In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
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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.
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The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
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Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
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You have to really understand how people speak, and you have to reconstruct it... Most pleasure in writing, you know, is in inventing.
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Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.
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All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
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What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
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Whatever you do, life don't stop. It only sits a minute and dreams a dream.
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