10/23/2025
Your voice didn’t disappear because you were too loud. It disappeared because someone needed you silent to maintain control.
For too long, women have been taught that anger is unbecoming, that rage is unladylike, that speaking up makes us difficult. We’ve been conditioned to swallow our truth, to cry quietly, to ask permission before taking up space. And when we finally do speak, we’re told we’re too emotional, too dramatic, too much.
But here’s what they don’t want you to know: your voice is the most dangerous weapon you have against the systems that tried to break you. Your scream is the sound of refusal. Your words are the proof that you survived, that you remember, and that you will not be erased.
Healing isn’t about finding your voice. It’s about remembering it was always yours. They didn’t take it. They just convinced you it wasn’t worth hearing.
So scream. Speak. Write. Testify. Tell your story until your throat is raw and your hands shake and the people who wanted you quiet can’t ignore you anymore.
Do it for yourself. Do it for the little girl who learned to be silent to survive. Do it for every woman who comes after you, so she never has to wonder if her voice matters.
It does. You do. And the world needs to hear what you have to say. Scream so loud they hear you not only today, but a hundred years from now. ꩜♥︎ Ella
📞 U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-7233 or text START to 88788
💻 Chat online: thehotline.org
💜 Love is Respect (for young people): 1-866-331-9474 or text LOVEIS to 22522
🌍 Global support: nomore.org
