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title: "7 Taught Silence Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Taught Silence quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Taught Silence sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I write for these women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audre-lorde/i-write-for-these-women-who-do-not-speak-for-those-who-do-not-have-a/)

[Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audre-lorde/)

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> [“Living with her taught me this: That silence is a thick and dark curtain, the kind that pulls down over a shop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judith-ortiz-cofer/living-with-her-taught-me-this-that-silence-is-a-thick-and-dark/)

[Judith Ortiz Cofer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judith-ortiz-cofer/)

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> [I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/audre-lorde/i-write-for-those-women-who-do-not-speak-for-those-who-do-not-have-a/)

[Audre Lorde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/audre-lorde/)

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> [“when it came to listening my mother taught me silence if you are drowning their voice with yours how will you hear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupi-kaur/when-it-came-to-listening-my-mother-taught-me-silence-if-you-are/)

[Rupi Kaur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupi-kaur/)

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> [My dad always taught me that silence is complicity, and that I must stand up for anyone who was being treated unfairly.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashley-biden/my-dad-always-taught-me-that-silence-is-complicity-and-that-i-must/)

[Ashley Biden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashley-biden/)

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> [Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/long-ago-among-other-lies-they-were-taught-that-silence-was-bravery/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-naturally-formed-the-habit-of-restraining-my-thoughts-a/)

[Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/)

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