Quotes from Suzette Haden Elgin

A grandmother is a safe haven.

The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one.

Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.

Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse who did professional person-bustling.

But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *

He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory—that's what you have computers for, so you don't have to put stuff in your own memory—and that was all he did.

No longer were there "doctors" of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that were unseemly and inappropriate.

A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This

There's got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don't put a stop to it, you'll regret it bitterly later on.

There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It

True, everything they'd done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth?

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.