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
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  1. 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. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>I think, what I always tell...
  2. There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.
  3. Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
  4. I finally understood that I didn’t lack pen and paper but my ownmemorizing mind. It had been given away with a hundred poems, calledrote learning, old-fashioned, backward, an enemy of creative thinking, a great human gift disowned.
  5. We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.
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