Language Quotes

I know how to say ‘no’ in twelve languages. That’s enough for a woman.

Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.

My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there’s the reality: there’s no Heaven, no afterlife of the sort we were promised, and no personal God.

Moving away from “useful” doesn’t mean it isn’t necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.

No matter what color, race, language you speak, or profession you practice, as women, Empowering yourselves must always come first.

To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.