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I didn't have the easiest time with this collection, but I respected Paley's writing, very dense but funny too. The stories are slices of life, often involving reoccurring characters, a group of women from New York who are friends and activists, though the stories are less concerned with politics than their relationships. Despite the realist overtones, conversations often veer into strange philosophical territory that isn't easy to parse.

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I have only read or listened to a handful of her stories, and loved them. So quirkily unique. She was scheduled to attend AWP in Vancouver when I lived there about a decade ago but at the last minute was too ill to come.

She's another writer I would like to do a intensive slow read of some day.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/grace-paley-the-saint-of-seeing

In a May 2007 interview with Vermont Woman newspaper, Paley said of her dreams for her grandchildren: "It would be a world without militarism and racism and greed - and where women don't have to fight for their place in the world."

"Also, you‘ll see, you‘ll be lucky in this life to have something you must do to take your mind off all the things you didn‘t do." -- crying all day to Grace Paley, as usual