Top 35 Quotes About Pronouns
#1. still closed CeCe says, "Don't call me she. It's rude. Pronouns are for the absent. I'm right
Sophie McManus
#2. The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.
Martin Luther
#3. Tables of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Bonjour, France! Chapter 2 Numbers and Gender Chapter 3 Plural Forms of Nouns Chapter 4 Pronouns Chapter 5 Verbs Chapter 6 Prepositions Chapter 7 Useful Expressions Preview Of'Spanish For Beginners' Check Out My Other Books Conclusion
Manuel De Cortes
#4. As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning.
Frederick Lenz
#5. The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.
Maya Angelou
#6. What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
Laverne Cox
#7. I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!
Arca
#8. You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.
Patricia Briggs
#9. What? Who? You can't throw around pronouns like that without their antecedents if you want people to follow you.
Kevin Hearne
#10. Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
Maya Angelou
#12. I think they would like the songs better
if I left out the names, or changed
the pronouns.
David Levithan
#13. We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
Samantha Harvey
#14. I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.
Lauren F. Winner
#16. And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me?
And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself?
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#17. 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.
Seanan McGuire
#18. Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
Carol P. Christ
#19. We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.
Gloria Steinem
#20. The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
John Scalzi
#21. You can't communicate solely in pronouns and emphasis, you know.
Gary Meehan
#22. Often the pronouns I, me, and you are not just harmless but downright helpful. They simulate a conversation, as classic style recommends, and they are gifts to the memory-challenged reader.
Steven Pinker
#23. After I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with a butter knife at a party in my own home.
James W. Pennebaker
#24. The universe swings again into orbit around us.
Am I looking for you or you for me?
The question is wrong.
As long as I keep using two pronouns,
I am this in-between, two-headed thing.
Rumi
#25. When my friend told her drug dealer that she was transgender, he immediately started using the correct pronouns for her and her parents don't so there's an issue there.
Unknown
#26. The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being.
Gloria Steinem
#27. 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.
Holly Near
#28. I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.
Mary Lambert
#29. Mrs. Penniman always, even in conversation, italicised her personal pronouns.
Henry James
#30. If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?
Carol P. Christ
#31. Mom and Dad aren't pronouns; they're relationships.
Paula Sophia
#32. Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
Conor Oberst
#33. 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
#34. One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than people who are low in status.
James W. Pennebaker
#35. She just kept staring at her," she lamented. "Like I wasn't even there."
... "The trouble with lesbian love triangles is you can't tell which 'she' and which 'her' we're talking about.
Molly Ringle
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