... like a woman made frigid, I had to learn response, to trust this possibility for fruition that had not been before.
ATTRIBUTION:
Tillie Olsen (b. 1912), U.S. essayist and story writer. Silences, part 1 (1978).
Written in 1962, on trying to compose fiction after many years of being “silenced” by the demands of raising four children, keeping house, and holding a full-time job.
