Quote by Anatoly Liberman

“Sline: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a slang word formed by truncation of baseline, which is a Praxic…

— Neal Stephenson

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

— Norton Juster

“Now she understands that his use of the slur is deliberate. A dehumanizing word for someone who has been made into a thing.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“It seems the word ‘slut’ can be applied to any activity that doesn’t include knitting, praying, or sitting perfectly still lest any sudden movements…

— Jessica Valenti

“A slut is someone, usually a woman, who’s stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts…

— Jaclyn Friedman

The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity…

— Ezra Pound

There is a fine line between sultry and slutty. Find it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.

— Mary Oliver

“The word slut is the highest compliment I can give. It means you are a person who owns her sexuality and is unafraid to…

— Tiffany Reisz

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturitions are to me, As plurdled gabbleblotchits, On a lurgid bee, That mordiously hath blurted out, Its earted jurtles, Into…

— Douglas Adams

Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.

— Tim McIlrath