Quotes About Language

Explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'

I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.

Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

A German psychologist says that women talk more than men because they have a bigger vocabulary. But, it evens out because men only listen half the time.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

To create a language all of a piece which would be a women's language, that I find quite insane. There does not exist a mathematics which is only a women's mathematics, or a feminine science.

Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.

I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.

Women have a greater verbal capacity.

Words are women, deeds are men.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

Women are more verbal than men. That's why when you see an elderly couple together, it's always the man who has the hearing aid.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.