It's really important that young women be reminded that their involvement matters and that their voice is heard. Even if it feels like it's small, it really can make an impact.
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We must tell girls their voices are important.
The voices of women need to be heard. The volume needs to be turned up.
I tend to focus on young people and on giving a voice to groups of people who don't normally get their voices heard.
I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
I was hugely relieved to discover there was a purpose for girls with loud voices.
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.
I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.
We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
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