Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. — Tillie Olsen Granted Copy Share Image
“What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?” — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? — Tillie Olsen Remember Copy Share Image
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often… — Tillie Olsen Accumulation Copy Share Image
Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. — Tillie Olsen Reality Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Constant Copy Share Image
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their… — Tillie Olsen Blood Copy Share Image
“But there is more – to rebel against what will not let life be.” — Tillie Olsen Life Copy Share Image
Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave… — Tillie Olsen Behinds Copy Share Image
