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Was it an insult to be called a -œwoman writer-? Didn't it have a taint of, say, the -œwoman driver-?

Was it an insult to be called a -œwoman writer-? Didn’t it have a taint of, say, the -œwoman driver-?
– Mary Norris

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  2. Angry driver is angry human and how you drive is how you are. You can tell me the drive is different than the driver, but I haven’t seen it to be. – Cole Harmonson
  3. Fake people will insult you infront of the whole world but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private. – Shizra
  4. When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them. – Donna Lynn Hope
  5. To insult someone we call him ‘bestial’. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov
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  7. You know those guys who say ‘danger is my middle name’? I bet if you looked on their driver’s licence it would probably say ‘Melvin’ or something. – Lee Entrekin
  8. To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult. – Teresa Monachino
  9. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget. – Joseph Conrad
  10. Faith and doubt cannot reside together. An iota of doubt is enough to taint the entire process, it is like a drop of red ink in water. – Malti Bhojwani
  11. Even the false accusations of a person of dubious morality can taint the reputation of an upright servant. – Hock G Tjoa
  12. He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! – Patrick Sskind
  13. I wear a taint of rationing, that’s all. I have the thready, ashamed look of a reduced person who assumes there is a worse reduction to come. – Morag Joss
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  15. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  16. I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law. – Ryan Lilly
  17. That’s Doctor Smart-ass. I didn’t spend eight years in insult college to be called Mister. – Jim Butcher
  18. Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar. – Mary Norris
  19. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. – Mary Norris
  20. If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. – Mary Norris
  21. You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. – Mary Norris
  22. You cannot legislate language. Prohibition never worked, right? Not for booze and not for sex and not for words. – Mary Norris
  23. Nobody knows everything-”one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-”and everybody makes mistakes. – Mary Norris
  24. So many things in language can never be known or settled or explained, except by custom. – Mary Norris
  25. Refuse to be called master, otherwise people will start thinking that whatever you say is right! Refuse to be called master! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  26. Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult? – Tamora Pierce
  27. When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  34. No, Ben. What I’m asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Ben’s the driver, right? – Jonathan Harnisch
  35. Belief is the driver that gives energy and power to achieve your potential. – Steven Redhead
  36. If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost. – Brian MacLearn
  37. It is always a great honor to be the driver of your own car, to be the boss of your own fate! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. Nowhere near the driver’s seat, and I love this journey God’s got me on! – Dolls Bowman
  39. Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver. – EL Konigsburg
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