Quotes by Suzette Haden Elgin

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Women are valued to the degree that they serve the needs of men.
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Any beginning is also an ending, you know. You can’t have just the one.
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You cannot weave truth on a loom of lies.
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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.
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If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don’t complain about it.
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A Grandmother is a safe haven.
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A symbol is best answered by a symbol. Not by a . . . meat cleaver.
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...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.