Every woman who writes is a survivor.
- Tillie Olsen
More Quotes By Tillie Olsen
- Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to...
- That’s what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other...
- The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even...
- Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
- The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
- More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
- Better immersion than to live untouched.
- She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms...
- It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
- And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
- Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
- Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of...
- It’s hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they...
- It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
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