Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language." “I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself.
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