“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?” DoeMereMalesDevicesMasculineImageryPronouns Author:Carol P. Christ
“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.” ThinkingFactsSufferingThreeVerbsPronouns Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“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.” MenSexTermPositionMembersDeserveFemaleFeministDuesHonourSurvivedTransgenderCastesSubordinationPronouns Book:Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism Source: Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.” IfsGrowsCommonNumbersGloryOrdinaryPerceiveAdsVersesTowersOne WordVerbsImmaturePrecipiceBanalityNew WordsPronounsOdesTautology Author:Alasdair Gray
“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).” UseTodayNamesStartingOfficialsFeminineMailFacilityRequestConfinementPronounsStarting Today Author:Chelsea Manning
“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.” MeanTogetherWallBallsBounceAdjectivesNounsPronounsAdverbs Author:Maya Angelou
“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.” ThinkingGivingUsedDamnUmpiresExcludedPronouns Author:Holly Near
“The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.” WorldFactsOrderSocialBlackDifferencesWhiteOpinionFemaleMalesGenderAssumptionEmphasisSocial OrderBlack Or WhitePronouns Author:Roni Horn