This wonderful Oprah.com article is about one woman’s journey from keeping quiet to learning how to express herself.   I hope you enjoy it!
Stepping Out of the Box: How I Learned to Speak My Mind
Some highlights are below:
“…the trouble with lugging around a sackful of unsaid words is it throws you off balance.”
“Those of us who don’t feel entitled to speak can really flounder when it comes to more intimate relationships. A marriage built on silence and assumptions has its cold and windy places, where the unsaid echoes.”
“…the real loss lay in my lack of sharing the good things, too. Not to tell someone how thrilled I was, how proud, how pleased—there the emptiness lay not in what I said but what I didn’t say.”
“You can’t always get what you want, but if you overcome the fear of laying it on the line, you just might find you get what you need.”