Function Words

Famous quotes containing the words function and/or words:

“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest reformism. It is a total denial of the creative function of difference in our lives. Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.”
—Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)