Tillie Olsen
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"Tillie Lerner Olsen" was an United States/American writer associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminism/feminists.

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

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

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

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

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

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