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It is a long Baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion and in pain than to live untouched. Yet how will you sustain? -- Tillie Olsen
Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones. -- Tillie Olsen
There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt. -- Tillie Olsen
Not to have an audience is a kind of death. -- Tillie Olsen
Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used. -- Tillie Olsen
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible -- Tillie Olsen
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates. -- Tillie Olsen
What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness? -- Tillie Olsen
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others. -- Tillie Olsen
And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total? -- Tillie Olsen
Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades. -- Tillie Olsen
Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean. -- Tillie Olsen
The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked. -- Tillie Olsen
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. -- Tillie Olsen
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. -- Tillie Olsen
Every woman who writes is a survivor. -- Tillie Olsen
Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled. -- Tillie Olsen
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ... -- Tillie Olsen
Better immersion than to live untouched. -- Tillie Olsen
I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character. -- Tillie Olsen