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“I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.”

Quote by Grace Paley

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Grace Paley was an American writer born on December 11, 1922, and passed away on August 22, 2007. Known for her concise language and profound emotional depth, her works primarily focus on family, love, and social issues. more

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“The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.”

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“I was fortunate that by the time I was born, there were a lot of comforts and at the same time I lived in a neighborhood where it was brought to my eyes every single day that people didn't live like me. Every day I knew that many of my friends "got relief." That was important in my thinking about the world, thinking that not everybody lived that way.”

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“When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.”

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“If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.”

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“It wasn't until I lived in the countryside that I began to understand the life of the countryside and the people in it and trees and water. Just learning about water is an education for a city person.”

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“I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.”

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“Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.”

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“My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how literature is made. And then if they become great writers, that's great, and probably has nothing to do with me.”

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“I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.”

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“I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.”

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