<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article relies too much on references to primary sources . Please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . (January 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> "I Stand Here Ironing" is a short story by Tillie Olsen . It was published in her short story collection Tell Me a Riddle in 1961 . </P> <P> Point of view: The story is told from a mother's first person point of view . The narrator, a remarried mother of five children, remembers the way she parented her first child, Emily . Her thoughts, and the story, are about what she would have done differently while parenting Emily if she had been more experienced and had better options . It is one of Olsen's most anthologized works . </P>

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