Quotes About Voice

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

I just wanted to say things that women wanted to say, but were afraid to.

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

Without your voice being heard in Washington, the decisions we make aren't as good. I would urge women to consider public service. And if you want to run, give me a call. I'll help.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

Only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth, and that is not speaking.

This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.