"I know that I haven’t powers enough to……" — Tillie Olsen
"I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates."
—
Tillie Olsen
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
15 Quotes by Tillie Olsen
Tillie Olsen has 15 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
-
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
-
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
-
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.
-
Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all…
-
Better immersion than to live untouched.
-
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
-
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
-
It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
-
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
-
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
See all 15 quotes by Tillie Olsen »
More Creates Quotes
This quote is filed under Creates Quotes,
one of 1,637 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state…
— Aristotle
-
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
-
Here's the thing - I mean, I don't act for statues. I really don't. The great thing about winning an…
— Kevin Bacon
-
A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.
— Kevin Bacon
-
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous…
— Alan Ball
-
I learned from Mr. Wrigley, early in my career, that loyalty wins and it creates friendships. I saw it work…
— Ernie Banks
-
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates…
— Charles Baudelaire
-
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
— Scott Adams
-
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
— Melody Beattie
-
All oppression creates a state of war.
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty…
— Jeff Bezos
-
One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.
— Lewis Black
See all 1,637 Creates Quotes »