Tillie Olsen Quotes

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

Tillie Olsen

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Tillie Olsen

Tillie Lerner Olsen (January 14, 1912 – January 1, 2007) was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.

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Tillie Olsen

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

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Be critical. Women have the right to say: <br/>This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

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There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

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Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

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I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

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