Frases de Grace Paley

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Grace Paley

Fecha de nacimiento: 11. Diciembre 1922
Fecha de muerte: 22. Agosto 2007
Otros nombres: 格拉斯·佩利, グレイス・ペイリー,قریس پیلی

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Grace Paley fue una escritora de historias cortas, poeta, profesora y activista política.

Frases Grace Paley

„Las mujeres han comprado libros escritos por hombres desde siempre, y se dieron cuenta de que no eran acerca de ellas. Pero continuaron haciéndolo con gran interés porque era como leer acerca de un país extranjero. Los hombres nunca han devuelto la cortesía”.“

— Grace Paley

„La idea de que me iré de un mundo que está cada vez peor no me gusta, porque siempre pensé que era mi deber dejar el mundo mejor de lo que lo había encontrado. Si se tiene el hábito de ver cada día como una jornada completa, envejecer es interesante. Todos los días se conoce a una persona nueva, una puesta de sol nueva. Todos los días pasan cosas hermosas".“

— Grace Paley

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„There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.“

— Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

„The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.“

— Grace Paley

„The only recognizable feature of hope is action.“

— Grace Paley

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„Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.“

— Grace Paley

„My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.“

— Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

„I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library.
Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified.
He said, What? What life? No life of mine.“

— Grace Paley, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

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„Here I am in the garden laughing
an old woman with heavy breasts
and a nicely mapped face


how did this happen
well that's who I wanted to be


at last a woman
in the old style sitting
stout thighs apart under
a big skirt grandchild sliding
on off my lap a pleasant
summer perspiration


that's my old man across the yard
he's talking to the meter reader
he's telling him the world's sad story
how electricity is oil or uranium
and so forth I tell my grandson
run over to your grandpa ask him
to sit beside me for a minute I
am suddenly exhausted by my desire
to kiss his sweet explaining lips.“

— Grace Paley

„…I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they’re lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.“

— Grace Paley

„To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.“

— Grace Paley, Fidelity: Poems

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