Quotes About Voice

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

Women have an important contribution to make.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

People assume that men make all the rules, but sometimes mothers are the ones who command girls to be quiet while they arrange for us to be sold like oxen or mules.

I stayed under the moon too long. I am silvered with lust. Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes. My voice is trees tossing in the wind. I loose myself like a flock of blackbirds storming into your face. My lightest touch leaves blue prints, bruises on your mind. Desire sandpapers your skin so thin I read the veins and arteries maps of routes I will travel till I lodge in your spine. The night is our fur. We curl inside it licking.

In my childhood bed we float, your sweet husky voice singing about the crescent moon, with two horns sharp and bright we would climb into like a boat and row away and see, you sang, where the pretty moon goes.

as might have been expected, in the dinner-jacket he had worn on the previous evening. His explanation was characteristic. 'Most extraordinary,' he said, in his slightly high-pitched voice.

For better or worse, it is the "three wrong" that sticks in one's memory after the math test is returned, not the "seventeen right." I wonder what happens when a child hears a recitation of his failures day after day, year after year? Do you have a strong negative internal voice that is critical of yourself and others? Where did that voice come from? It is the result of our own upbringings that tracked our failures rather than our successes.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

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.

Democracy without women in power is not democracy at all.

Eartha Kitt singing "Santa Baby" in that languid voice of hers, the purring of a feline underlaid with rebel cries, sure it would have been nice for her just to be the little kitten she looked like so she could get her black voice listened to, the black rage of South Carolina plantations where she'd been raped by a white farmer, that's what Robbie was going to sing tonight,

Trust your fears. When a quiet voice whispers, "you are being used", listen. Ignore your baser desires.

Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.

Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside all of us.

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.