I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

All language is a popularity contest.

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’.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

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

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.