Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen
Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 January 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Tillie Olsen quotes about
commodity economy profit
Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
enough knows havens
I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
hurt cuss-words
There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
doe results occasional
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
doe granted used
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
women blood religion
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.
meditation toil distraction
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
immersion
Better immersion than to live untouched.
writing survival survivor
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
peace growing-up hands
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
time time-management remember
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
writing kind audience
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
moving solitude rhythm
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
mean motherhood responsible
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible