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Tillie Olsen Inspirational Quotes (16)
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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
I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.
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Every woman who writes is a survivor.
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Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
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Think about all that we've lost that has been said orally because nobody was taking it down. I feel very fortunate to live in a time where we have so many different voices. We have a much richer literature than we've ever had, and we can know America so much better.
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Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.
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It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual interruption, not continuity spasmodic, not constant toil.
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More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible
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The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. We are a species that makes changes.
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That's what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.
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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
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Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse.
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I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
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Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
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The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
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There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.
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