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

Tillie Olsen

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“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“Topology and number theory are my faves.”

Source : Barnard Physics Mechanics PHYS BC2001, 2010.
“The advice I would give myself is: "Don't date that guy, don't drink that, go right home, get a good night's sleep."”

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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
“I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
“See your target. Keep it in your sight. Hit it... until you hit it.”
“At the very core of my relationship to learning is the idea that we should be as organic as possible. We need to cultivate a deeply refined introspective sense, and build our relationship to learning around our nuance of character.”
“Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.”

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