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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
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
What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?
— Tillie Olsen
Everton are now hitting the ropes running.
— Glenn Hoddle
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
— Tillie Olsen
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.
— Tillie Olsen
I thought of all that worked dark pits
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed. — Wilfred Owen
Of war, and died
Digging the rock where Death reputes
Peace lies indeed. — Wilfred Owen
Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.
— Carolyn See
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
In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form
— Umberto Eco
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
— Tillie Olsen
Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
— Tillie Olsen
Better immersion than to live untouched.
— Tillie Olsen
I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.
— Emmy Rossum
I'm a Miami girl. I'm not meant to be in anything under eighty degrees, ever. Shut
— Hannah Moskowitz
Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike's Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow's Herzog
— Pamela Paul
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
— Wei Wu Wei
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
— Tillie Olsen
More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
— Tillie Olsen
The Rosary is a treasure of graces
— Pope Paul V
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
— 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
That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...
— Tillie Olsen