Talking Back Critique by Dora Barnhill

The fear of saying what one wants to say is one tragedy, but my fear is that my words will not be respected as much as a mans. I feel Gloria Watkins pain but in a different way, she feared getting physical and emotional punishment but my fear is that my spoken words will be unnoticed like the sound of a child being beaten for speaking out but no one had the courage to say it was wrong. Although I am lucky enough to live in a country were I have rights to be whoever I want to be and the freedom to do what I want to do,the silence that women had to maintain in years before I was born, is still in a sense, on living.