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Contemporary Women's Writing Advance Access originally published online on October 28, 2009
Contemporary Women's Writing 2009 3(2):128-134; doi:10.1093/cww/vpp024
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The Debt She Paid

Dorothy Allison

http://www.dorothyallison.net

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I’m about to commit a sin, but it's a sin that's been committed against me. And I know Grace Paley would understand. Grace loved sin.


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  		LEGACIES

 
I am going to try to give you a piece of Grace.

My greatest regret at the death of Grace Paley is all the young writers who will not get to meet her, who will not get to look into her face, hear her read her own work, and see her sense of humor and her absolutely no-nonsense confrontational style – the kindest confrontational style I’ve ever encountered. No pardon, no hesitation. She said quite frankly that it was a kindness to confront people, and you felt it when she confronted you. You did not feel yourself . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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