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1 " 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 is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. "
2 " 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. "
3 " So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose. "
― Zora Neale Hurston , Dust Tracks on a Road
4 " When I finally did confront Mr. Arcott, after my return to Falchester, he had the cheek to try and argue that his intellectual thievery had been a compliment and a favor. After all, it meant my work was good enough to be accepted into ibn Khattusi's series -- but of course they never would have taken a submission from a woman, so he submitted it on my behalf. What I said in reply is not fit to be printed here, as by then I had spent a good deal of time in the company of sailors, and had at my disposal a vocabulary not commonly available to ladies of quality. "
― Marie Brennan , The Voyage of the Basilisk (The Memoirs of Lady Trent, #3)
