Women, Voice, and Writing Quotes

“On jealousy: You may also need to deal with jealousy. When someone is jealous, they may try to “take it, break it, or denigrate it.” Criticism can originate from jealousy’s ‘denigrate’ motivation. Criticism can also start from someone trying to take your voice, or spirit, and break it. [p. 96]”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“On criticism: When you choose voice, you know someone is not going to agree with you. There will be opposition, criticism. There are two ways to deal with criticism: either get a thick skin,
or a strong inner core. [p. 95]”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“Learning to crow: If we’ve been taught to credit our success externally and debit our failures to ourselves, we’re indeed in a bind. It is important to come to an authentic assessment of our talents and strengths, speaking from our center. [p. 91]”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“About play: Play is an important part of finding voice, because it allows us to try on new selves, like costumes, with sanctuary. We can pretend to be, pretend to write as if, without committing. And often play allows us to discover our authentic self. [p. 48]”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“Inherited voice: Our inherited voice is handed down with the family furniture. [p 39]”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice

“On silence: Silence is an important language. Not speaking can be an intensely relational act.
… Repression is a kind of silence, and also shapes voice. [p. 23]
The silencer has power. The dominant culture defines what is spoken about, what is repressed. The effect on the non-dominant culture (in this case women or girls) is to learn the language of camouflage. She learns to disassociate from her own knowing and her own voice.[p. 50] from WOMEN VOICE AND WRITING”
― Jill Hackett, Women, Voice, and Writing : How to define, develop, and strengthen your writing voice