A Voice of Her Own: Women and the Journal Writing Journey
As writers such as Virginia Woolf,Audre Lorde,and Anais Nin recognized,keeping a journal is a powerful tool of creative expression and self-healing. In A Voice of Her Own - a companion for both new and longtime diarists - Marlene Schiwy shows that journal writing is the ideal way to find one's individual voice,an opportunity for women to explore feelings,intuitions,perceptions,and ideas often suppressed in our society,and to record the truths of their own experience. Schiwy invites readers to sha