Quotes About Voice

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

Social media is something women didn't have 10 years ago, and that's a big aspect in feminism today. I don't have to be filtered by anyone. I choose.

Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated!

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

The world needs women to redefine what it means to be a person of power

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.

I really want women to throw their shoulders back and stand up straight and use their big girl voices and not feel like they're compromising their femininity to be strong and smart.

I created EIDWIM20s as a voice for women like myself.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.

Women have an important contribution to make.

If power is abstraction, which many black men, black women, and people of color have very little voice in, well, then I want to sit at the table.

If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

I write for myself, first and foremost and I also write for people, mostly women, who just want to be seen and heard and all too often aren't.

My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk

As women become more educated and confident, they can start adding their voice.

Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.

The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders