165 Quotes by Grace Paley

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

Old age is not a good thing. It can be really hard, and those of us who have it a little easier should keep in mind that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are not as well off.

Hindsight, usually looked down upon, is probably as valuable as foresight, since it does include a few facts.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

People 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.

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.