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Tillie Olsen Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 14, 1913 - January 1, 2007

Topics

Women Reality Say Right Surface

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Community Priorities Values Talk

I'd rather win than be a showman.

Win Rather Than

My first full-time radio job at 21, I was there for only a couple of months before I was hospitalized. I wrote a resignation letter. My dad wouldn't give the letter to my boss at the time.

Time Job Boss Resignation Radio

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We've been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we've given up a lot of things and we've been training really hard our entire lives, we've been able to maintain great social lives.

Life Strength Great Training Team

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Stephen Sondheim

Father Myself Yourself Fun Someone

Business practices and how we treat the planet are also in desperate need of re-humanization.

Simon Mainwaring

Business Treat Need Planet Desperate

Social media has created a digital latticework, but it has also, for some, created abusive commenters, silos, and validation rather than curiosity.

Social Media Curiosity Media Digital

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

Me You Pen Body Stick Different

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Success Business Me Someone Achieve

Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.

I Am Information Kind Watergate Part

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

Annie Leibovitz

Thought Doing Journalism Stone Maybe

Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?

William S. Burroughs

First Which Came

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