“ Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”? Mary Norris
“ So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. Mary Norris
“ Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes. Mary Norris
“ You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. Mary Norris
