Quote by John Grisham

“In our time, Universalism as such, like a spinster lady late in life, took a husband, and although they agreed to hyphenate their married…

— Max Coots

I was Corinne Bailey. I added on Rae, my husband's name, when I got married. There's no hyphen. Stops it being posh!

— Corinne Bailey Rae

“what kind of woman would wantonly marry and adopt such a name? Shittlehope.”

— Elizabeth Bailey

“Famous women keep their same names even after they get married because their names are their bread and butter.”

— Stephen King

“I'm not sure if you've noticed this yet, but Jenny Sullivan likes to overuse people's first names. It's a technique she read about in…

— Claire Garber

People say, 'What if your name was Niki Smith?' Well, if Niki Smith lived the life I've lived, it would have great bearing.

— Niki Tsongas

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the…

— Gloria Steinem

Mrs. Corey still uses her maiden name for business, or when she wants to pretend she doesn’t know me.

— Nelson DeMille

“She doesn't like to use people's names, other than mine, anyway. She prefers self-designated titles: The Enforcer, Pack Leader, Hall Moniter, Socio, Daddy Issues.…

— Dawn Klehr

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”

— Lori Duron

“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names…

— Sheri Holman

I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young…

— Vladimir Nabokov