Quotes From "Between You Me: Confessions Of A Comma Queen" By Mary Norris

1
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar. Mary Norris
2
You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. Mary Norris
3
Nobody knows everything–one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn–and everybody makes mistakes. Mary Norris
4
So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. Mary Norris
5
Was it an insult to be called a “woman writer”? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the “woman driver”? Mary Norris
6
The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler. Mary Norris