The purpose of this chapter is to show that the concept of voice is a significant feature not only of Cavell's autobiographical writings but also of his ordinary language philosophy as a whole and, especially, that it is incipient in his earliest work, Must We Mean What We Say? This theme is sustained and “permeates” the early to the later writings of Cavell, foregrounded in his later autobiographical writings. As Veena Das has put this, the repression of voice, confession, and autobiography in philosophy is an abiding theme of Cavell’s work; the banishing of the human voice in philosophy is a suspicion of all that is ordinary, enacting a fantasy of a purified medium outside of language. We explain how this theme was and remained central for Cavell.