All language is a popularity contest.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

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 boyfriend/spouse/partner, 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’.