Grace Paley

Grace Paley (December 11, 1922 – August 22, 2007) was an American short story writer, poet, teacher, and political activist.

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    “The dreariest spot in all the land
    To Death they set apart;
    With scanty grace from Nature’s hand,
    And none from that of Art.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

    “... 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.”
    —Grace Paley (b. 1922)