Emily

“I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.”
― Sandra Steingraber, Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

“It is the intriguing job of genre scholars to figure out what lies behind what everyone already knows.”
― Amy J. Devitt

“The world is violent and mercurial--it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love--love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.”
― Tennessee Williams

“Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.”
― Jean Aitchison, Language Change: Progress or Decay?