Tillie Olsen Quotes

• La historia literaria y el presente están llenos de silencios . . . He tenido una necesidad especial de aprender todo lo que he podido de esto a lo largo de los años, estando yo tan cerca de quedarme mudo y teniendo que dejar que la escritura muriera una y otra vez en mí. No son silencios naturales -lo que Keats llamaba agonie ennuyeuse (la tediosa agonía)-, ese tiempo necesario para la renovación, el barbecho, la gestación, en el ciclo natural de la creación. Los silencios de los que hablo aquí son antinaturales: la frustración antinatural de lo que lucha por nacer, pero no puede.

  Tillie Olsen

  Lying, Struggle, Writing

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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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  Peace, Growing Up, Hands

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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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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  Mean, Motherhood, Responsible

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

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  Moving, Solitude, Rhythm

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.60, U of Nebraska Press

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• The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years.

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  Writing, Responsibility, Years

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.48, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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

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  Time, Time Management, Remember

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.278, Rutgers University Press

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

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  Reality, Aggravation, Surface

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.45, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Compared to men writers of like distinction and years of life, few women writers have had lives of unbroken productivity, or leave behind a 'body of work.' Early beginnings, then silence; or clogged late ones (foreground silences); long periods between books (hidden silences); characterize most of us.

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  Libro, Hombres, Años

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.38, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Every woman who writes is a survivor.

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  Writing, Survival, Survivor

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• I don't want to die leaving the world as it is right now.

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  Leaving, World, Want

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• I very much dislike the word "race," and I never use it. I use the word "racist." Race is not a fact. There is only one race: human. Skin color is less than 2 percent of the DNA.

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  Skin Color, Dna, Race

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• El reloj hablaba alto. Lo tiré, me asustaba lo que hablaba.

  Tillie Olsen

  Time, Scary, Scared

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.8, U of Nebraska Press

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• Not to have an audience is a kind of death.

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  Writing, Kind, Audience

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.44, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It's hard for me to talk about the terrible things that have happened in my lifetime because they didn't need to be.

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  Needs, Lifetime, Terrible

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.

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  Daughter, Sea, Long

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.298, Rutgers University Press

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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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  Thinking, Voice, America

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• La literatura es un lugar para la generosidad, el afecto y el hambre de los iguales, no un ring de boxeo. Cada buen escritor, cada buena obra, nos enriquece, nos confirma en nuestro medio y nos estimula a dar lo mejor de nosotros mismos. ¿Querríamos un buen escritor o un buen libro menos? La sensación de que los escritores se enfrentan entre sí se debe principalmente al funcionamiento del mercado comercial y a que los críticos alaban a un escritor a expensas de otro, ignorando la existencia de casi todos.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Generosity, Achievement

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.174, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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

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  Meditation, Toil, Distraction

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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

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  Hurt, Cuss Words, Hurt Feelings

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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

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  Doe, Granted, Used

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.103, Rutgers University Press

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• Better immersion than to live untouched.

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  Inmersión

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.293, Rutgers University Press

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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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  Enough, Havens, Divides

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.163, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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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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  Forever, Degradation, Facts

  Fuente: progressive.org

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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.

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  Women, Blood, Religion

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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

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  Character, Special, Literature

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.96, Rutgers University Press

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