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It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

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Lexicographers are language reporters.

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You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend
spouse
partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.

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People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

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Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

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I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

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