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1 " Our civil and criminal codes reflect at many points the spirit of the Mosaic. In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as " He," " His," " Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns " She," " Hers" and " Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as " He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as " He" ? "
2 " There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. "
― A.W. Tozer , The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
3 " 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. "
