Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Francine du Plessix Gray (American Writer, Literary Critic)

Francine du Plessix Gray (1930–2019,) was a French-born American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic. She was a novelist, journalist, biographer, feminist, a woman of letters, and memoirist.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a French diplomat, Plessix Gray worked as a night-desk reporter for United Press International in New York City 1952–54 and as an editorial assistant for the French magazine Réalités 1954–55. A freelance writer since 1955, she was a book editor for Art in America in New York City 1964–66, becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1968.

In 1975, Plessix Gray was a distinguished visiting professor at City College of New York. In 1981, she was a visiting lecturer at Saybrook College, Yale University. Since 1983, she was an adjunct professor for the School of Fine Arts at Columbia University. She also served as a Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 1986 and an Annenberg fellow at Brown University in 1997.

Plessix Gray’s notable publications include Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress (1972,) Lovers and Tyrants (1976,) World Without End (1981,) Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope (1989,) At Home with the Marquis de Sade (1998,) Simone Weil (2001,) and Them: A Memoir of Parents (2006.)

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A heart of fire in a shell of ice.
Francine du Plessix Gray

We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
Francine du Plessix Gray

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make … your life bearable.
Francine du Plessix Gray
Topics: Friendship, Candor

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