“When we sit down to write, or get up to speak, we experience ourselves as making choices. We may experience hesitation from fear of being criticized or from fear of exacerbating a problem we would like to remedy, or we may experience a resolve to speak despite existing obstacles, but we experience in many cases having the possibility to speak or not to speak.”
by Linda Alcoff, Feminist Nightmares: women at odds. Chapter 14 - The problem of speaking for others.