Again Quote by Erin McKean

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love…

— Erin McKean

“This isn’t a thrift store… We’re not selling them something less expensive, we’re selling them something more special. We have to tell them the…

— Erin McKean

You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t…

— Erin McKean

Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more…

— Erin McKean

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We…

— Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

— Erin McKean

Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because…

— Erin McKean

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more…

— Erin McKean

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

— Erin McKean

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

— Erin McKean

And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they…

— Erin McKean

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

— Erin McKean