Who gets to speak and why?, I wrote last week, is the only…

“She was extending a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence, she said, "You don't…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

— Nana Mouskouri

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours.

— Milton Berle

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they…

— Pauline Frederick

When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they…

— Mae West

Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.

— Boris Marshalov

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

— Jennifer Pahlka

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad…

— Emily Dickinson

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

— Johnny Hunt

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

— Anonymous

“We've all met people who are beautiful on the outside, however, when they open their mouths to speak, they have nothing of substance to…

— Susan C. Young

Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I just speak the truth. I keep it real.

— Marlon Vera

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard