Quotes About Being Silenced

#1. I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

Mavis Leno

#3. Before modern feminism, stories of female ambition were silenced or erased; even now, they are told with apology ("Yes, it's a great honor to be a Nobel Prize laureate, but really, what I love best is staying home and being a mother to Kevin and Annie").

Harriet Lerner

#4. 'Translations,' Lateran said scornfully, examining the bruises along Kestrel's ribs. 'Like caressing your lover through a burlap sack. You get the gesture of the thing, but not the nuance, and it is overall an irritating experience.'

L.S. Baird

#5. I grew up having two different perspectives - one in English, one in Spanish. Two different cultures, very different - but I think that, to me, it's one. I'm just as American as I feel Latin.

Prince Royce

#6. Success honors the giver, and the taker is cheated by demise.

T.F. Hodge

#7. Learn always and wherever possible, knowing that you'll never learn
everything.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

CeeLo Green

#9. It was as if no one noticed my strengths or interests. I was a piece of cheese being shoved into a mold ... The last few years, I hadn't measured up in any way, and the more they pushed, molded, and silenced me, the more I wanted to be heard.

Mary E. Pearson

#10. I want to love you wildly. I don't want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.

Anais Nin

#11. I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

Sandra Cisneros

#12. When you're in a soap, it's fantastic, and I'm really grateful for the fans who watch you and support you. For me, it was the best experience because I was able to act every day and work with so many different directors and get some great storylines and learn on-screen.

Emma Rigby

#13. My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.

Susan Boyle

#14. My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall,

Angela Merkel

#15. Passion is something that drives you and light the fire inside of you.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#16. My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.

Malala Yousafzai

#17. I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

Jack Kilby

#18. You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

Roberto Bolano

#19. That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Berkeley Breathed

#20. I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.

Kara DioGuardi

#21. You get to a certain point, especially if you're a comedian, where people think certain things. It's like, I don't take the time to explain it to people, it's just part of what I do.

Denis Leary