8 Quotes by Suzette Haden Elgin

...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.

A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.

A Grandmother is a safe haven.

If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don’t complain about it.

Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.

Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.

Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.