“The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybody makes up statements about it, everybody - so far as we can tell - agrees enough to get by, so that when I say 'Hand me the coffee'… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share
“Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.” — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
This is what happens when the discourse of publishing, defined and driven by spoken and written language, is talked about in exactly the same… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“They are encumbered with secret pregnancies that never come to term. There are no terms, you don’t see. They drag their swollen brains about… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it. — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
