Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer, associated with the political turmoil of 1930s and the first generation of American feminists.
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“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.”
Tillie Olsen
“There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.”
“Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.”
“Be critical. Women have the right to say:This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”
“And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?”
“I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.”
“I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.”