Tillie Olsen

“The joy, the reason to believe,” my mother said, “the hope for the world, the baby, holy with possibility, that is all of us at birth.”

— Tillie Olsen

It is destroying, dissolving him utterly, this helpless warmth against him, this feel of a child.

— Tillie Olsen

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