Difficulty Quote by Bernard Pivot Download Open image “All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.” — Bernard Pivot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Difficulty Gender Language Speakers
For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“The word for woman is Gy (pronounced hard, as in Guy); it forms itself into Gy-ei for the plural, but the G becomes soft… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught. — Leslie Feinberg Copy Share Image
The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be, rather than recognising how we are. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders. — Ruth Bradley Copy Share Image
Women and men communicate differently, often on entirely different planes. But just as men have failed us, we have failed them. It has been… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems… — Harvey Mansfield Copy Share Image
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world,… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original. — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended… — Bernard Pivot Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with diffiulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you… — Shakira Copy Share Image
By the time you have no difficulties in your life, you have achieved Heaven. — Charles Brown Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
A perfect movie is a different thing, but a funny movie is easy. I was really happy that I got everyone that I got.… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
