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Top 20 Tillie Olsen Quotes (2025 Update)

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Better immersion than to live untouched.”

1. “Better immersion than to live untouched.”

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.”

2. “The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.”

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.”

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

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “It is a long baptism into the seas of humankind, my daughter. Better immersion than to live untouched.”

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

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Every woman who writes is a survivor.”

5. “Every woman who writes is a survivor.”

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil.”

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

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.”

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

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible.”

8. “More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible.”

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”

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

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “That’s what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks...”

10. “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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Tillie Olsen Quote: “And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?”

11. “And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”

12. “Better mankind born without mouths and stomachs than always to worry about money to buy, to shop, to fix, to cook, to wash, to clean.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom – but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by.”

13. “Let her be. So all that is in her will not bloom – but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by.”

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.”

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

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Tillie Olsen Quote: “Never saw so many peaceful wrecks in my life... That’s what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.”

16. “Never saw so many peaceful wrecks in my life... That’s what I want to be when I grow up, just a peaceful wreck holding hands with other peaceful wrecks.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Not to have an audience is a kind of death.”

17. “Not to have an audience is a kind of death.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “And could you not make a cameo of this and pin it onto your aesthetic hearts?”

18. “And could you not make a cameo of this and pin it onto your aesthetic hearts?”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn’t a corpse.”

19. “Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn’t a corpse.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.”

20. “I know that I haven’t powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.”

21. “Writers in a profit making economy are an exploitable commodity whose works are products to be marketed, and are so judged and handled.”

— Tillie Olsen

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

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

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity.”

23. “More than in any human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible. It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity.”

— Tillie Olsen

Tillie Olsen Quote: “The rats shall be your birds, and the rocks plopping in the water your music. And death shall be your wife, who woos you in the brief moments when coal leaps from a bursting side, when a cross-piece falls and barely misses your head, when you barely catch the ladder to bring you up out of the hole you are dynamiting.”

24. “The rats shall be your birds, and the rocks plopping in the water your music. And death shall be your wife, who woos you in the brief moments when coal leaps from a bursting side, when a cross-piece falls and barely misses your head, when you barely catch the ladder to bring you up out of the hole you are dynamiting.”

— Tillie Olsen

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