Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriendspousepartner, 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’.
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.
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
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.
I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment
Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.
Efficiency obliterates identity