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.
Grace PaleyMy vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
Grace PaleyWhen you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.
Grace PaleyHindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.
Grace Paley