“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
“Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Whatever pronouns a person chooses, if they choose any at all, are their right. Not a fucking preference,” — Gabby Rivera Copy Share Image
“I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“And so their small, subtle verbs mince the universe into tenses, their pronouns and articles slice people into genders. They infect us… — Ramon C. Sunico Copy Share Image
“Since takers tend to be self-absorbed, they’re more likely to use first-person singular pronouns like I, me, mine, my, and myself—versus first-person… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
“No,” Kai said, still fixed on me. “Nope, Cherry never said they were a female. That’s why I started using neutral pronouns.… — Megan Erickson Copy Share Image
I even feel unsure about really sinking my claws into the term 'nonbinary' and 'they/them' pronouns, because it feels like it's ironic… — Cole Escola 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
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
In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
“She knelt on the walkway, and the plants bunched around her, each of them calling out their name: the philodendron was Dendy… — Sarah Beth Durst 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
We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and… — Gloria Steinem 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
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
“I exclusively use they/them and he/him pronouns now, and that is what I expect people to use when referring to me in… — Nevo Zisin 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
“Relax,” Edith says. “The perfect name will come to you in time.” Which is when Gogol announces, “There’s no such thing.” “No… — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
[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
I wrote about ladies who had come through the studio. I get asked, 'Is it a choice to gender the music or… — King Princess Copy Share Image
“I say "her," but the pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented; what came to Charles was not… — John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman Copy Share Image
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“I hate labels, hate pronouns. They're so confining. They like some bird cage, y'know? Or prescription medicine. Some days I feel one… — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
“The universe swings again into orbit around us. Am I looking for you or you for me? The question is wrong. As… — Rumi 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
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love… — Arca Copy Share Image
“No, no, not 'she,' he reminded himself. Cam lived as a boy, and though Merik wasn't used to that yet–to thinking of… — Susan Dennard 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
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm non-binary, so I use 'they' and 'she' pronouns and I think it's interesting that we feel pretty binary about comparisons. People… — Eva Victor Copy Share Image
When I tour with a band, things get more unconscious and more automatic as the tour goes on. Music has to be… — John Vanderslice 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
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