Emily Erickson

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)”
― Edward W. Said, Culture and Imperialism

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.”
― Walt Whitman