Quotes by : Tillie Olsen

Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.

There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I....