I’m not sure where I saw this quote from the wonderful Tillie Olsen, but it lodged in my memory:
Any woman who writes is a survivor.
—Tillie Olsen
Or perhaps is trying to be? Is writing always an act of survival?
I’m not sure where I saw this quote from the wonderful Tillie Olsen, but it lodged in my memory:
Any woman who writes is a survivor.
—Tillie Olsen
Or perhaps is trying to be? Is writing always an act of survival?
Filed under December fragments 2012
Tagged as photographs, Tillie Olsen, women writers, writing
Author of KATHLEEN O’CONNOR OF PARIS (narrative non-fiction), ELEMENTAL and THE SINKINGS (novels) and INHERITED (short story collection). looking up/looking down is an occasional blog about writing, reading and watching the world...