“Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.”
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
— Virginia Woolf, book The Waves
Source: The Waves
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