#grace paley quote

[d-i-x-i-t]

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do.

- Grace Paley

[galina]

What is sometimes called a / tongue of flame / or an arm extended burning / is only the long / red and orange branch of / a green maple / [...] reaching

[girlwithlandscape]

Grace Paley

(who must have also had her Venus in Aquarius??)

[womanoncesaid]

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

[squeakowl]

Art by Katie Daisy (source)

[moonshadowspoetry]

— from Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor

[bookpillows]

I posted 7,873 times in 2022

1,849 posts created (23%)

6,024 posts reblogged (77%)

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I tagged 2,156 of my posts in 2022

#film - 318 posts

#art - 298 posts

#quotes - 140 posts

#tv - 89 posts

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#kdrama - 26 posts

#editorial - 21 posts

Longest Tag: 129 characters

#at least i get to spend the next two months studying for my certifications and training so i dont' have to do real work for a bit

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

society when hollywood discovers that women can be both pretty and have naturally curly hair

13 notes - Posted August 25, 2022

#4

What is originality, after all, but the shape that results from the natural impulse to communicate to others that feeling of freedom, that unconstrained joy?

Haruki Murakami, Novelist as a Vocation

14 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#3

As the writer Grace Paley once said, “Women have always done men the favor of reading their work and men have not returned the favor.”

20 notes - Posted March 8, 2022

#2

“At thirteen, I walked around bare legged, in a short dress,” another woman told me. “A man, sniggering, made a comment about my fat calves. The next day, my mother made me wear stockings and lengthen my skirt, but I will never forget the shock I suddenly felt in seeing myself seen.”

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

28 notes - Posted August 7, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Every time [woman] behaves like a human being, she is declared to be identifying with the male.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

2,131 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

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[writerswritecompany]

Quotable – Grace Paley

Find out more about the author here

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Paley writes:

My father had decided to teach me how to grow old. I said O.K. My children didn’t think it was such a great idea. If I knew how, they thought, I might do so too easily. No, no, I said, it’s for later, years from now. And besides, if I get it right it might be helpful to you kids in time to come.

They said, Really?

My father wanted to begin as soon as possible.

[…]

Please sit down, he said. Be patient. The main thing is this — when you get up in the morning you must take your heart in your two hands. You must do this every morning.

That’s a metaphor, right?

Metaphor? No, no, you can do this. In the morning, do a few little exercises for the joints, not too much. Then put your hands like a cup over and under the heart. Under the breast. He said tactfully. It’s probably easier for a man. Then talk softly, don’t yell. Under your ribs, push a little. When you wake up, you must do this massage. I mean pat, stroke a little, don’t be ashamed. Very likely no one will be watching. Then you must talk to your heart.

Talk? What?

Say anything, but be respectful. Say — maybe say, Heart, little heart, beat softly but never forget your job, the blood. You can whisper also, Remember, remember.

[isidoreducassemal]

It seems right to dedicate this collection to my friend Sybil Claiborne, my colleague in the Writing and Mother Trade. I visited her fifth-floor apartment on Barrow Street one day in 1957. There before my very eyes were her two husbands disappointed by the eggs. After that we talked and talked for nearly forty years. Then she died. Three days before that, she said slowly, with the delicacy of an unsatisfied person with only a dozen words left, Grace, the real question is—how are we to live our lives?

Grace Paley. Dedication, The Collected Stories

[d-i-x-i-t]

“You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.” ― Grace Paley

[thelibraryiscool]

A nice thing I do remember is breakfast, my ex-husband said. I was surprised. All we ever had was coffee. Then I remembered there was a hole in the back of the kitchen closet which opened into the apartment next door. There, they always ate sugar-cured smoked bacon. It gave us a very grand feeling about breakfast, but we never got stuffed and sluggish.

from “Wants” in Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley

[leaud]

Grace Paley, “Jobs”

[harrypotterhousequotes]

SLYTHERIN: “I am ambitious, but it's a long-range thing with me. I have my confidential sights on a star, but there's half a lifetime to get to it. Meanwhile I keep my eyes open and am well dressed.” –Grace Paley (The Contest)

[batdadrph]

Poor woman. Poor girl, to be born in a time of fools, to live among fools.

An Excerpt from A Conversation With My Father by Grace Paley

[sara-crawford]