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''... people 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.''
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Grace Paley (b. 1922), U.S. story writer, poet, and peace activist. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 1, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).
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''The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.''
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Grace Paley (b. 1922), U.S. story writer, poet, and peace activist. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 1, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).
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...I don't have an inner drive to do as well as anybody else ... I have a great pleasure in writing and part of that is political and part of that is I'm surprised that I've done as well as I have. I ...
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Grace Paley (b. 1922), U.S. story writer, poet, and peace activist. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 1, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).
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This Life
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My friend tells me
a man in my house jumped off the roof
the roof is the eighth floor of this building
the roof door was locked how did he manage?
his girlfriend had said goodbye I'm leaving
he was 22
his mother and father were hurrying
at that very moment
from upstate to help him move out of Brooklyn
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