Verbing weirds language. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology. – Roland Barthes
Having gone through so many of the personal things Ive gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I dont profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone. – Elizabeth Berkley
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it. – Louisa May Alcott
