Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen Quotes

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You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody makes mistakes.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”?

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Some women bristle, in certain contexts, at being called female: it seems to focus exclusively on the reproductive system, and makes you feel like a chicken, all thighs and breasts.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen