Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
Jeffrey EugenidesTag: sadness language hatred emotions excitement disappointment capture english fail
...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included).
Karl MarxTag: humor progress equality history feminism french english american labor-union social-change
They had nothing in common but the English language.
E.M. ForsterTag: english
Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.
P.G. WodehouseTag: humor comedy english british jello jelly wodehouse
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry JamesTag: beauty literature english summer
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Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: english
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter ScottTag: english 1171-to-1832 novelist-and-poet
you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.
Susanna ClarkeTag: english
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
Joseph ConradThe price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.
Chinua AchebeTag: experience language english
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