How do we weigh all the words so that we can hear some women speaking and some telling their stories through silences?

“I'm just telling you little wee bits and pieces because there's so much has happened in my life and now I want to make something of myself and try to support myself.”

“Somehow what the students say-the voices that we should be listening to the most- without being kind of taken over-have to be made to have weight. And that's very hard to do for people who are not in the habit, really, of listening to those voices. You can either patronize those voices-As you can see from the following three excerpts, we can prove that blah blah blah-which would bug me and please some people. On the other hand, the voices will not stand for themselves [for some people] to pay attention to them. They've heard the students tell these stories-so what?”