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Quotes from Of Poetry and Women and the World — Grace Paley

1922–2007 United States

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When I came to think as a writer, it was because I had begun to live among women.

Of Poetry and Women and the World (1986)

I have to say that war is man-made. It's made by men. It's their thing, it's their world, and they're terribly injured in it. They suffer terribly in it, but it's made by men. How do they come to live this way?

Of Poetry and Women and the World (1986)

what art is about-and this is what justice is about, although you'll have your own interpretations-is the illumination of what isn't known, the lighting up of what is under a rock, of what has been hidden.

Of Poetry and Women and the World (1986)

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