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Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object. -- Conor Oberst
Pronouns are the enemy of improv. -- Craig Cackowski
Pronouns are only useful when you combine them with other words. I have a few I can give you, if you're at a loss. -- Mira Grant
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. -- Holly Near
Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male? -- Carol P. Christ
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do. -- Maya Angelou
The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented. -- John Fowles
You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back. -- Patricia Briggs
I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility). -- Chelsea Manning
The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three. -- Ulysses S. Grant
The old languages - at least the ones I know - don't have gender. They don't have gendered pronouns. There's no "he" and "she." A human being is a human being. -- Gloria Steinem
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? -- Carol P. Christ
All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection. -- Joseph Devlin
A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
[After being corrected by a grammarian for using the feminine pronoun instead of the pseudogeneric masculine:] As you please, but for my part, if I were to express myself so, I should fancy I had a beard. -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny! -- Arca
And she keeps saying, how can you do this to me? And i want to scream, what do you mean, how can I do this to you? Aren't we confusing our pronouns here? The question, really, is How could I do this to myself? -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position. -- Sheila Jeffreys
The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer. -- Maya Angelou
They found the corpse in the closet of Alcide's apartment, and they hatched a plan to hide his remains." Eric sounded like that had been kind of cute of us. "My Sookie hid a corpse?" "I don't think you can be too sure about that possessive pronoun." "Where did you learn that term, Northman?" "I took 'English as a Second Language' at a community college in the seventies. -- Charlaine Harris
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned. -- Laverne Cox
If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well? -- Carol P. Christ
I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience. -- Mary Lambert
The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns. -- Martin Luther
What we need are poems that interrogate the world of pronouns, open up possibilities of language and life; forms of politics that support and encourage self-affirmation. -- Judith Butler
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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