Tillie Olsen

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


— Tillie Olsen


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


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


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


— Tillie Olsen


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The second part of the book was a study of the work of little-known writer Rebecca Harding Davis. Biography
Olsen was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Wahoo Nebraska and moved to Omaha while a young child. There Tillie Olsen attended Lake School in the Near North Side through the eighth grade living among the city's Jewish community.