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

Tillie Olsen


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

Tillie Olsen


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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?

Tillie Olsen


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

Tillie Olsen


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Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.

Tillie Olsen

Mots clés silence



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