"She would not exchange her solitude for anything.……" — Tillie Olsen
"She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others."
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15 Quotes by Tillie Olsen
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More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
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Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
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Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
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There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all…
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I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
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Better immersion than to live untouched.
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Every woman who writes is a survivor.
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It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.
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Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.
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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you…
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Never run away from anything. Never!
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If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
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I don't iron anything. Never have and never will.
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You should never ask anyone for anything. Never- and especially from those who are more powerful than yourself.
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