--- title: "19 Speak Quotes By Terry Tempest Williams" description: "19 Speak quotes by Terry Tempest Williams. Plus more from Terry Tempest Williams and more Speak sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/terry-tempest-williams-835_feminism_when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women_1692812.png" --- > [When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women-get-hurt/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/terry-tempest-williams-835_feminism_when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women_1692812.png) > [I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a-sin-for-a-woman-to-speak-out/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/terry-tempest-williams-835_culture_i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a_2468241.png) > [When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human-being-where-there-is-no-need/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/terry-tempest-williams-835_feels_when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human_776229.png) > [Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/choosing-with-integrity-means-finding-ways-to-speak-up-that-honor/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eec/terry-tempest-williams-835_choosing_choosing-with-integrity-means-finding-wa_2585062.png) > [I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-think-wherever-we-are-we-can-create-an-atmosphere-of-openness-and/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/679/terry-tempest-williams-835_atmosphere_i-think-wherever-we-are-we-can-create-an_1781044.jpg) > [It was fascinating listening to this wonderful biologist, Sarah Allen Miller, speak of her relationship to these beings for 20 years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/it-was-fascinating-listening-to-this-wonderful-biologist-sarah-allen/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e17/terry-tempest-williams-835_biologist_it-was-fascinating-listening-to-this-won_1007244.png) > [Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/find-something-that-matters-deeply-to-you-and-pursue-it-question/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5d/terry-tempest-williams-835_matter_find-something-that-matters-deeply-to-yo_2043600.png) > [“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/what-needs-to-be-counted-on-to-have-a-voice-courage-anger-love/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/632/terry-tempest-williams-835_courage_what-needs-to-be-counted-on-to-have-a-vo_1299109.png) > [“What needs to be counted on to have a voice? Courage. Anger. Love. Something to say; someone to speak to; someone to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/what-needs-to-be-counted-on-to-have-a-voice-courage-anger-love-2/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bef/terry-tempest-williams-835_courage_what-needs-to-be-counted-on-to-have-a-vo_2402465.png) > [To engage in civil disobedience is to feel the abundance of courage, the gratitude for a democracy that still invites us to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/to-engage-in-civil-disobedience-is-to-feel-the-abundance-of-courage/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/348/terry-tempest-williams-835_abundance_to-engage-in-civil-disobedience-is-to-fe_1249509.jpg) > [I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-was-extremely-close-with-my-mother-and-my-grandmothers-we-shared/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3e/terry-tempest-williams-835_cancer_i-was-extremely-close-with-my-mother-and_763422.png) > [This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/this-is-my-living-faith-an-active-faith-a-faith-of-verbs-to-question/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d0/terry-tempest-williams-835_active_this-is-my-living-faith-an-active-faith_472398.jpg) > [“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in. I want to survive my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-want-to-feel-both-the-beauty-and-the-pain-of-the-age-we-are-living/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/terry-tempest-williams-835_age_i-want-to-feel-both-the-beauty-and-the-p_1691214.png) > [Even as a woman who has a voice in the world, I struggle to find it, to use it, to keep it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/even-as-a-woman-who-has-a-voice-in-the-world-i-struggle-to-find-it-to/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc5/terry-tempest-williams-835_clinton_even-as-a-woman-who-has-a-voice-in-the-w_2031146.png) > [We have to speak out now on behalf of our community and on behalf of the land and say they're the same…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/we-have-to-speak-out-now-on-behalf-of-our-community-and-on-behalf-of/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb0/terry-tempest-williams-835_behalf_we-have-to-speak-out-now-on-behalf-of-ou_1973913.jpg) > [There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/there-are-different-qualities-of-silence-there-s-the-silence-that/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b4/terry-tempest-williams-835_believe_there-are-different-qualities-of-silence_452578.png) > [Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/each-of-us-contributes-our-own-piece-to-the-whole-each-in-our-own-way/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/terry-tempest-williams-835_action_each-of-us-contributes-our-own-piece-to_3202106.png) > [I think it could be argued that I am not heard, in the broadest sense. That is not my concern. My concern,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-think-it-could-be-argued-that-i-am-not-heard-in-the-broadest-sense/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/terry-tempest-williams-835_believe_i-think-it-could-be-argued-that-i-am-not_1000158.png) > [I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-recently-got-back-from-hiroshima-and-it-was-fascinating-to-me-how/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc3/terry-tempest-williams-835_accommodate_i-recently-got-back-from-hiroshima-and-i_3162517.png) ## Other authors on Speak ## More by Terry Tempest Williams > [I admire how she protects her energy and understands her limitations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-admire-how-she-protects-her-energy-and-understands-her-limitations/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/buddha-says-there-are-two-kinds-of-suffering-the-kind-that-leads-to/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-wonder-how-among-the-fremont-mothers-and-daughters-shared-their/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-believe-the-personal-is-the-collective-one-of-the-ironies-of/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I write to discover. I write to uncover. I write to meet my ghosts... I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-write-to-discover-i-write-to-uncover-i-write-to-meet-my-ghosts-i/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create red in a world that often appears black and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-write-to-make-peace-with-the-things-i-cannot-control-i-write-to/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/hope-is-not-attached-to-outcomes-but-is-a-state-of-mind/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-have-spoken-about-what-we-can-do-as-citizens-what-we-can-do-as-a/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/the-moment-eve-bit-into-the-apple-her-eyes-opened-and-she-became-free/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-accept-the-organic-trinity-of-mineral-vegetable-and-animal-with-as/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [Good writing must stay open to the questions and not fall prey to the pull of a polemic, otherwise, words simply become predictable, sentimental,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/good-writing-must-stay-open-to-the-questions-and-not-fall-prey-to-the/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“I believe we must do things in our lives for the right reasons, because we enjoy doing them, with no expectation of getting something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-believe-we-must-do-things-in-our-lives-for-the-right-reasons/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/a-mother-and-daughter-are-an-edge-edges-are-ecotones-transitional/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [“To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don't need to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/to-be-read-to-be-heard-to-be-seen-i-want-to-be-read-i-want-to-be/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) > [The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/the-eyes-of-the-future-are-looking-back-at-us-and-they-are-praying/) [Terry Tempest Williams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-tempest-williams/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/speak/terry-tempest-williams/#itemlist", "name": "19 Speak Quotes By Terry Tempest Williams", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terry Tempest Williams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women-get-hurt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/terry-tempest-williams-835_feminism_when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women_1692812.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/terry-tempest-williams-835_feminism_when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women_1692812.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b1/terry-tempest-williams-835_feminism_when-one-woman-doesn-t-speak-other-women_1692812.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.” — Terry Tempest Williams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terry Tempest Williams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a-sin-for-a-woman-to-speak-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/terry-tempest-williams-835_culture_i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a_2468241.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/terry-tempest-williams-835_culture_i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a_2468241.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d5/terry-tempest-williams-835_culture_i-grew-up-in-a-culture-in-which-it-was-a_2468241.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.” — Terry Tempest Williams", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When you are with a landscape or a human being where there is no need to speak, but simply to listen, to perceive, to feel.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Terry Tempest Williams" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-tempest-williams/when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human-being-where-there-is-no-need/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/terry-tempest-williams-835_feels_when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human_776229.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/terry-tempest-williams-835_feels_when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human_776229.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ed/terry-tempest-williams-835_feels_when-you-are-with-a-landscape-or-a-human_776229.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“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", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. 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