This study discusses women's actions toward oppressions. Women's actions in many societies, including in Indonesia, have often been limited, partly due to the prevalent patriarchal culture. Women, as well as men, should have the same right to improve themselves without any restraint from their surroundings. The research aims to investigate how women’s actions in Okky Madasari’s The Years of the Voiceless bring impacts on their surroundings. There are two research questions formulated in this study: 1) How do the actions of Sumarni and Rahayu in this story affect their surroundings? and 2) How do Sumarni and Rahayu respond to the oppressions from the society they live in? This study used a psychological critical approach, and employed library research as the data gathering method. The primary source of this study is the novel by Okky Madasari entitled The Years of the Voiceless. The first finding reveals that the actions of Sumarni and Rahayu can be categorized as responses to situational demands, manifestation of attitude, and testing new attitudes. The first finding also shows how other women around them are affected by the main characters' actions. The impacts of Sumarni and Rahayu are manifested in three central features of attitude, based on Kelmen’s theory of the role of action in attitude change: first, attitudes are functionally based, second, attitudes are socially shared and third, attitudes represent a range of commitment to the attitude object. The second finding shows that both female characters showed two kinds of reactions toward oppression. The reactions can be categorized as responses to situational demands, adherence to new policy, manifestation of attitude, and testing new attitudes.