Sometimes the young-discouraged, overwhelmed-ask me incredulously: You mean you still have hope? And I hear myself saying, yes, I still have hope: beleaguered, starved, battered, based hope. Through horrors, blood, betrayals, apathy, callousness, retreats, defeats-in every decade of my now 82-year-old life that hope has been tested, affirmed. And more than hope: an exhaustless store of certainty, vision, belief-which came to me first in the time of my youthhood, the Depression '30s.
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Tillie Olsen was a 20th-century American writer. Tillie Lerner Olsen was an American writer who was associated with the political turmoil of the 1930s and the first generation of American feminists. Read more on Wikipedia →