Finding Your Voice

4/22/2013

A Message for Girls and Women

By Kathleen Hoy Foley

You are your own authority.
Question Everything. Including social, religious & political authorities
Learn to listen and respond to your intuition. It is never wrong.
Learn to be impolite. It must be part of your defense system.
Nothing is unspeakable.
Stare truth in the eye and speak it.
You name abuse. Listen to your body. It will tell you. It is never wrong.
Stare abuse in the eye and speak it.
Stare abusers in the eye and name them.
Use your voice. Use your words.
BE LOUD. Violence against girls and women hides in the silent shadows.
Know that you are powerful.
KNOW THAT YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL. USE IT.

Listen to Kathleen and Phil speak on PWR Talk Radio with Jeanne White Link:
http//www.pwrtalk.com/page/j-white archive 4-21-2013

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About the Author

In the provocative spirit of Matilda Joslyn Gage, Gloria Anzaldua, and Mary Daly, Kathleen Hoy Foley expands and deepens the voice of female experience.

Raw. Uncompromising. Compassionate. Deliberately antagonistic. Kathleen writes to awaken the courage within the reader.

TO THE SURVIVOR
If you are a person who was victimized as a child or as an adult, I am so very sorry you ever had to suffer at the hands of a predator.

I am sorry you were abused, sorry no one protected you, sorry you have felt so alone, sorry you have been so afraid then and in the now. I am so sorry for the loss of your innocence.

You were and are entitled to you life. And you had a right to inherit your own body. And no matter what you did or what you think you failed to do you are not to blame. Sexual abuse is never a victim's choice. Sexual abuse is something that was done to your body not something you wanted.

This is an excerpt from:

http://web.archive.org/web/20130101063123/http://true-perspective.org

Kathleen and I encourage you to visit this site for perspective on your ordeal. Live happy and whole. Claim you power!

You are your own authority.

Question Everything. Including social, religious & political authorities

Learn to listen and respond to your intuition. It is never wrong.

Learn to be impolite. It must be part of your defense system.

Nothing is unspeakable.

Stare truth in the eye and speak it.

You name abuse. Listen to your body. It will tell you. It is never wrong.

Stare abuse in the eye and speak it.

Stare abusers in the eye and name them.

Use your voice. Use your words.

BE LOUD. Violence against girls, boys, women and men hides in the silent shadows.

Know that you are powerful.

KNOW THAT YOUR VOICE IS POWERFUL. USE IT.