Casey Miller quotes

“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.”
-- Casey Miller

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

#Ideas Quotes #Skins Quotes #Language Quotes

“Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.”
-- Casey Miller

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.4, iUniverse

#Writing Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Language Quotes

“From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.”
-- Casey Miller

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2000). “Words and Women”, p.18, iUniverse

#People Quotes #Connections Quotes

“conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.”
-- Casey Miller

Source : Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

#Children Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Use Quotes

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.7, Courier Corporation

“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”

“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”

“The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.”

“We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.”

“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”

Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation

“There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.”

“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”