The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
Grace PaleyThat heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.
Grace PaleyI do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.
Grace PaleyPeople say, "Why do you call your kids up, why do you worry like that?" And I say, "I was raised like that." My grandmother looked at my father with the same eyes when he was sixty and she was eighty-five.
Grace Paley