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Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse w...

Suzette Haden Elgin

Nazareth wasted no time in anything she did, and years of experience with her brood of nine had given her a firm way of bustling another person along that was impressive even to a professional nurse w...

Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.

About Author
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Suzette Wilkins; November 18, 1936 – January 27, 2015) was an American researcher in experimental linguistics, construction and evolution of languages and poetry and science fiction writer. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association and is considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Her best-known non-fiction includes her Verbal Self-Defense series.

We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men. (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon,

Suzette Haden Elgin

We are men, and human words are all we have: even the Word of God is composed actually of the words of men. (HUNTING THE DIVINE FOX, by Robert Farrar Capon,

True, everything they’d done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth?

Suzette Haden Elgin

True, everything they’d done so far had failed. But they had learned things! What had happened to the idea of knowledge for the sake of knowledge? Truth for the sake of truth?

They are encumbered with secret pregnancies that never come to term. There are no terms, you don’t see. They drag their swollen brains about with them everywhere; hidden in pleats and drapes and cunni...

Suzette Haden Elgin

They are encumbered with secret pregnancies that never come to term. There are no terms, you don’t see. They drag their swollen brains about with them everywhere; hidden in pleats and drapes and cunni...

There’s got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don’t put a stop to it, you’ll regret it bitterly later on.

Suzette Haden Elgin

There’s got to be something you can do with them, or they will literally drive you crazy. Women out of control are a curse—and if you don’t put a stop to it, you’ll regret it bitterly later on.

There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It

Suzette Haden Elgin

There was no end to the inventiveness of men when their goal was to prove their mastery. It

The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

Suzette Haden Elgin

The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.

The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This

Suzette Haden Elgin

The language we use to describe and operate in the world affects the way we understand the world, our place in it, and our interactions with one another. Changing our language changes our world. This

No longer were there doctors of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that we...

Suzette Haden Elgin

No longer were there doctors of anthropology and physics and literature to offend the real doctors and confuse the public; they had put a stop to that, as they had put a stop to so many things that we...

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

Suzette Haden Elgin

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

Tags: fire

It was her favorite cup, emerald-green china with a rim of silver, and sturdy enough to drink from half awake without worrying that she'd crush it, the last unbroken one of a set used for company meal...

Suzette Haden Elgin

It was her favorite cup, emerald-green china with a rim of silver, and sturdy enough to drink from half awake without worrying that she'd crush it, the last unbroken one of a set used for company meal...

He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory—that’s what you have computers for, so you don’t have to put stuff in your o...

Suzette Haden Elgin

He stayed carefully away from the profs, he ran the data they gave him without allowing any of it to register in his memory—that’s what you have computers for, so you don’t have to put stuff in your o...

First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybod...

Suzette Haden Elgin

First principle: there's no such thing as reality. We make it up by perceiving stimuli from the environment - external or internal - and making statements about it. Everybody perceives stuff, everybod...

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Confederation Day every blessed year on December 12.

But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *

Suzette Haden Elgin

But she would learn. Every woman was a prisoner for life; it was not some burden that she bore uniquely. She would have all the company she could ever need. *

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one.

Suzette Haden Elgin

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can't have just the one.

A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.

Suzette Haden Elgin

A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Suzette Haden Elgin

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Tags: courage