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1 " And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal). "
― Joanna Russ , How to Suppress Women's Writing
2 " Language is not law; it is in fact a lot like music. Speech is jazz – first you learn the basic rules, and then you become good enough to improvise all the time. Writing is somewhat more like classical composition, where established forms and conditions will hold greater sway. "
― Robert Lane Greene , You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
3 " Ultimately, then, creativity and originality lie not in the avoidance of established forms but in the imaginative use of them. "
― Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein
