Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action by Audre Lorde
interminablerambling.comwords are actions. They punch, tear, hurt, harm, soothe, amuse, educate, illuminate. They express ideas and feelings, and they make people feel better, and they move them to tears, and they enrage them, and they define them. We are all made of nouns, live by verbs, enlarge and entertain ourselves with adjectives and adverbs.
Anna Quindlen • Write for Your Life
So the words we use don’t only reflect who we are, they actively create who we are.