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As he laid in his deathbed, I said to him that "you got tuh pacify somebody besides besides yo'self if you wants any love and any sympathy." I always thought that he never pacified somebody because he was "too busy listening tuh his own big voice" (pg 86-87).

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"No matter what Jody did," I didn't say anything. I had learned how "to talk some and leave some," but I kept feeling like I was "beaten down by the wheels" above the surface (pg 76).

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I'm crying, and I say to Grandma that "I want things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think." But all grandma tells me is that "Tain't no use in you cryin' Janie" (pg 24).

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Janie's progress towards her goal of gaining a voice in her life has been a rocky one. She even describes herself as being, "beaten down by the wheels"  (pg 76). All her life people (Grandmother and Jody) were trying to push onto her their views on life. They thought that by limiting Janie's voice, they could convince her that life was about making the most money, having the best things, and having security. All Janie ever wanted was to find true love and experience life to the fullest. Similar to Thoreau, Janie wants to "front only the essential facts of life“ because she "wished to live deliberately."

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This is/was my struggle to gain my voice:

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This is/was my struggle to gain my voice:

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To live and experience my OWN life...

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That is what I always wanted.

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To have my OWN voice...

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To have a say in my OWN decisions...

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With Tea Cake in my life I finally had my own voice and it didn't matter where we were because I loved him; "I reckon you wish now you had of stayed in yo' big house 'way from such as dis, don't yuh...' 'Yeah, naw...  Ah'm wid mah husband in uh storm, dat's all" (pg 159).

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I “hurried out of the front gate and turned south. Even if Joe was not there waiting" there for me, the change was "bound to do me good" (pg 32).