Gloria Steinem Quotes

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.

… avoid the use of language which may discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, age or culture.

Use she, he, it, one, they. You could call me mow mow, and I honestly don't care. A pronoun is just a sound. All I'm listening for in that sound is positivity.

My name is Rain Dove, and my pronouns are just a sound. You can use whatever you want.

In a perfect world, in my opinion, 'they,' 'them,' and 'theirs' would be the pronouns that everyone would use.

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

We must plow through the whole of language.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.

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.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

There's one thing that shows up on all of the lists of what makes us human: language. Our ability to share our thoughts and complex information with others far surpasses all the barks, squeaks and growls of our animal friends.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.

Then again you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.'

Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

The unconscious is structured like a language.

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.