Top 20 Tillie Olsen Quotes
#1. Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
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#2. Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
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#4. Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
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#5. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
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#6. The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
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#7. 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.
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#9. It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain?
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#10. There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
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#11. That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
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#12. She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
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#13. What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?
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#14. I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
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#15. More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
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#16. Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.
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#17. Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
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#18. And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
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#19. Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
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#20. 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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