Black men don’t like to be called ‚boys,‘ but women accept being called ‚girls.‘

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I was a proponent of the ERA.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn’t have any money, because Africa was the ‚dark continent‘, and because I was a girl.

Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I love stories about women.

The battle for women’s rights has been largely won.

If you can talk, you can write.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

I’ve never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn’t mean they’re going to be that way.

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

I was terrible in English. I couldn’t stand the subject. It seemed to me ridiculous to worry about whether you spelled something wrong or not, because English spelling is just a human convention – it has nothing to do with anything real, anything from nature.

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

‚Do you spell it with a ‚V‘ or a ‚W‘?‘ inquired the judge. ‚That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord‘.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

To the women and children, T stands for tender. To the bad guys and thugs, it stands for tough.

We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

But I do not believe that the world would be entirely different if there were more women leaders. Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven’t exactly been non-aggressive – including me.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don’t know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I’m afraid, have a tendency to hide our feelings.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist, but I don’t like girls pretending to be stupid because it’s easier.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

If you want to influence people, you want them to accept your suggestions, you don’t say, ‚You don’t know how to use the English language,‘ or ‚How could you make that argument?‘ It will be welcomed much more if you have a gentle touch than if you are aggressive.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

In a certain way, it’s the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship – and you know what, a father does, too. It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a ‚Mad Men‘ episode.

You can stroke people with words.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.