Tillie Olsen Quotes


"Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used."
- Tillie Olsen
(Related: Time)

"The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked."
- Tillie Olsen
"I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates."
- Tillie Olsen
"And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?"
- Tillie Olsen
(Related: Time)

"Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades."
- Tillie Olsen
(Related: Women, Reality, Right)