Speak Quotes by Terry Tempest Williams

When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.

— Terry Tempest Williams

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel…

— Terry Tempest Williams

It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.

— Terry Tempest Williams

Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

— Terry Tempest Williams

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened…

— Terry Tempest Williams

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about…

— Terry Tempest Williams