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.
Grace PaleyPeople will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
Grace PaleyMost of the Womens Libbers I knew really didnt want to have a piece of the mens pie. They thought that pie was kind of poisonous, toxic, really full of weapons, poison gases, all kinds of mean junk we didnt even want a slice of.
Grace PaleyI liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.
Grace Paley