JM

“Can't get eager pilots...if they're afraid of their partners...every battle."
"You don't think girls are afraid?"
"Girls...know how to sacrifice.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“Still, Tao looked around at the beaming faces of her friends, and let herself feel joy; she was a cup of tea, overflowing with warmth and wrapped in loving hands.”
― Julie Leong, The Teller of Small Fortunes

“That is a satisfying feeling, to be sure, but the reality is that grammar and morality don’t actually have anything to do with one another, and attacking a bigot’s poor grammar does not itself prove you are a better person. It might prove that you had the opportunity to become more educated than they did, or that you spent a lot of time mastering the rules of standard English. However, the moral significance of what someone says is about the content, not the grammar. As Cameron says, “Hitler wasn’t any less fascist because he could write a coherent sentence.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language

“A 2016 Slate piece called “Trump’s Tower of Babble” cited an analysis concluding that our forty-fifth president’s “loosely woven sentences and cramped, simplistic vocabulary” placed his speech below a sixth-grade reading level (more than four reading levels behind his opponents’ talking styles). A different study found that 78 percent of Trump’s vocabulary was made up of monosyllabic words, and that his most frequently used lexical items included (in the following order) I, Trump, very, China, and money.”
― Amanda Montell, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language