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
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