Quotes by Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen

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Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Nobody knows everything—one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn—and everybody ma — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”? — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler. — Mary Norris, Between You Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen