Pronoun Quotes

#1. A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Karen Elizabeth Gordon

#2. I remember that I wanted to kill It,' Bill said, and for the first time (and ever after) he heard the pronoun gain proper-noun status in his own voice.

Stephen King

#3. 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 confinement facility).

Chelsea Manning

#4. The only way you can communicate at a high level is to be conscious of everything you write - every comma, every pronoun, every word, and all their implications.

David Foster Wallace

#5. 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 a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#6. I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Fiona Maazel

#7. Excuse me. I think you must've accidentally used the wrong pronoun."
The growl that rumbled up out of his chest was loud enough to rattle the water glass on the bedside table.
"Fine, you can stand in the corner and cheer while I kill him.

Nalini Singh

#8. The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Ben Lerner

#9. 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 three.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

Robert Thurman

#11. For many years I used the pronoun 'we.' Now, as in my youth, I go to sleep and wake up alone.

Nina Berberova

#12. Looking back, one can almost imagine them stalking through the wild with specimen bottles and outsize nets, in determined pursuit of the Ojibwa adverb or the Cherokee pronoun.

Margalit Fox

#13. I am also downgrading his pronoun from a 'he' to an 'it'.

Nicole Amakan

#14. I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

Ann Leckie

#15. The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

John Fowles

#16. Her. One word. A simple pronoun that seems like an entire vocabulary.

Autumn Doughton

#17. The light of his plural pronoun was sufficiently reflected in his companion's face as he again met it; and he completed his demonstration.

Henry James

#18. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

#19. Part of the problem is words. The fact that there are separate words for HE and SHE, HIM and HER. I've never thought about it before, how divisive this is. Like maybe if there was just one pronoun for all of us, we wouldn't get so caught on that difference.

David Levithan

#20. 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 to suffer. I signify all three.

Ulysses S. Grant

#21. Linguists traditionally observe that esteemed writers have been using they as a gender-neutral pronoun for almost a thousand years. As far back as the 1400s, in the Sir Amadace story, one finds the likes of Iche mon in thayre degree ("Each man in their degree").

John McWhorter

#22. It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

Robin Black

#23. There we go, I see a human and immediately ascribe to them a pronoun and a sexuality. Be the change.

Mark William Lindberg

#24. [After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard.

Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

#25. His use of the plural pronoun made me very suspicious.

Matthew Quick

#26. I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

Richard Ford

#27. This is the last time you'll read the phrase "his or her" or "he or she"; from this point on, I'll use one or the other pronoun and assume you understand that any sex could apply.

Mark Steven Bosko

#28. I could feel it in myself. I felt lighter, unshackled, as if something I had been carrying had fallen away ... I just enjoyed the feeling and watched the once amorphous student body separate itself into hundreds of individuals. The pronoun 'we' itself seemed to crack and drift apart in pieces.

Jerry Spinelli

#29. he - I do wish somebody would think up a new collective pronoun -

Charlotte MacLeod

#30. I would like you to talk to someone."
Julia lowered her eyes? "I talk to you."
"I meant someone who isn't an ass.

Sylvain Reynard

#31. Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

David Mitchell

#32. According to Harold Fleming, for instance, who was then director of the Southern Regional Council, a small Atlanta hotbed of what he now calls "premature integrationists," a moderate was "a white man without sidearms.

Calvin Trillin

#33. I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.

Brody Jenner

#34. I always thought there was something French about her, ever since the word 'insouciance' flitted across the surface of my mind the first time we met.

Jessica Pine