Erin McKean famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You donâ€™t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You donâ€™t owe it to your mother, you donâ€™t owe it to your children, you donâ€™t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked â€˜femaleâ€™.
-- Erin McKean

#Mother #Children #Men
People say to me, â€˜How do I know if a word is real?â€™ You know, anybody whoâ€™s read a childrenâ€™s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
-- Erin McKean

#Children #Real #Book
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
-- Erin McKean

#Fashion #Males #Lexicographer
All language is a popularity contest.
-- Erin McKean

#Language #Popularity #Contests
Lexicographers are language reporters.
-- Erin McKean

#Lexicographer #Language
Language is a nice way to remember things.
-- Erin McKean

#Nice #Way #Language
Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.
-- Erin McKean

#Dying #Aging
Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.
-- Erin McKean

#Serendipity #Difficult #Findings
And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste good enough to justify getting that sugar all over everything, especially me.
-- Erin McKean

#Believe #People #Car
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
-- Erin McKean

#Attention #Pay Attention #Time Passes
You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.
-- Erin McKean

#Nice #Littles #Being Nice
Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.
-- Erin McKean

#Baby #Thinking #Opportunity
if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi
-- Erin McKean

#Listening #Want #Mimi

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