A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many… — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
In Buddhist ideology, the conventional self is that which is constructed in a way by the use of the pronoun, and when… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word… — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back. — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone. — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call… — Larry Trask Copy Share Image
We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at… — Minnie Bruce Pratt Copy Share Image
The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
“We could paraphrase Frost and say that if you’re not at home in a pronoun, you are not at home anywhere in… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be;… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand,… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
