Quotes About Voice

If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.

Moving forward, hopefully the platform my career has given me will allow me to continue to be a voice in culture, whether that's doing lectures on campus or writing books or whatever that looks like. I feel like that's really the lane that I uniquely connect with.

Very early on in this journey, I uniquely found not just an aesthetic, but also a voice. I found the ability to communicate with people, which has turned out for me to be a far more meaningful platform. To talk to them about not just what's on their body, but also on their minds.

My voice doesn't sound like anyone else's. I wanted to sound like my favorite singers when I was young because when you're young you don't put much value on uniqueness. But later I realized I had something special to offer.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

I thought, 'Oh, I'll be an independent producer. Oh, I'll be a manager.' I was going through all those things in my head, and one night, late at night, I was having what I would now describe as probably a panic attack because there were so many unknowns. An almost literal voice came into my head telling me, 'You need to write.'

I am a trained singer, but I had to unlearn how to sing with a coach, because Diana wasn't trained.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

On the Planet of Baritone women, they talk low.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

I believe in the power of the voice of women.

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

God bless that women are free in America. We can say what we want, and I do think women will heal the world.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.