Pronouns Quotes
23 quotes by 22 authors
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To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the…
— Maya Angelou
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in…
— Sufjan Stevens
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I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a…
— Rae Spoon
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If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using…
— Carol P. Christ
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is…
— Carol P. Christ
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The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of…
— Sheila Jeffreys
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never…
— Alasdair Gray
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I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the…
— Chelsea Manning
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Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
— Holly Near
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Pronouns are the enemy of improv.
— Craig Cackowski
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The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not…
— Roni Horn
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When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to…
— Lawrence Wright
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me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
— Conor Oberst
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Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three…
— Jose Saramago
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They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been…
— Charlaine Harris
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The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.
— John Fowles
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Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss.
— Mira Grant
Who Wrote These Pronouns Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 23 Pronouns Quotes as follows: