Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. - Tillie Olsen
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
- Tillie Olsen
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks. - Tillie Olsen
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible fo… - Tillie Olsen
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible fo…
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? - Tillie Olsen
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly r… - Tillie Olsen
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly r…
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible - Tillie Olsen
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now. - Tillie Olsen
I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of … - Tillie Olsen
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of …
Every woman who writes is a survivor. - Tillie Olsen
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
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