Vicki

“I've known for a long time that hypocrisy is the secret of sanity. You mustn't let them know you know.”
― Marilyn French, The Women's Room

“But there is more – to rebel against what will not let life be.”
― Tillie Olsen, Yonnondio: From the Thirties

“Literary history and the present are dark with silences . . . I have had special need to learn all I could of this over the years, myself so nearly remaining mute and having to let writing die over and over again in me. These are not natural silences--what Keats called agonie ennuyeuse (the tedious agony)--that necessary time for renewal, lying fallow, gestation, in the natural cycle of creation. The silences I speak of here are unnatural: the unnatural thwarting of what struggles to come into being, but cannot.”
― Tillie Olsen

“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”
― Tillie Olsen, Tell Me a Riddle