Tillie Olsen Quotes

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

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

About Author

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.

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

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

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

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 remaining mute and having to let writing die over an...