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A review by meghan111
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit
4.0
What do you need to have a voice in the world? How do you have a voice in politics, your personal life, professionally, when you talk about what you experience in the world? This book articulates it well:
Audibility - people listen when you speak or write.
Credibility - people believe your experiences happened. people believe your expertise.
Consequence - your words don't disappear into a void. you have efficacy.
"In some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worst to say something and have it not matter than to be silenced."
Audibility - people listen when you speak or write.
Credibility - people believe your experiences happened. people believe your expertise.
Consequence - your words don't disappear into a void. you have efficacy.
"In some parts of the world, a wife is still property under the law, and others choose her husband. To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worst to say something and have it not matter than to be silenced."