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Tillie Olsen quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

Tillie Olsen quotes: 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.

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 quotes: What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?

What in me demanded that goodness in her? And what was the cost, the cost to her of such goodness?

Tillie Olsen quotes: She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Tillie Olsen quotes: It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.

Tillie Olsen quotes: And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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

Tillie Olsen quotes: Better immersion than to live untouched.

Better immersion than to live untouched.

Tillie Olsen quotes: Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.

Tillie Olsen quotes: Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.

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

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

Tillie Olsen quotes: Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.

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

Tillie Olsen quotes: Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

Tillie Olsen quotes: More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

Tillie Olsen quotes: Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

Tillie Olsen quotes: There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

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

Tillie Olsen quotes: I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

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 quotes: That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...

That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks ...

Tillie Olsen quotes: The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

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

Tillie Olsen quotes: 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?

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?