A Quote by Gloria Steinem

Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem
American - Activist
Born: March 25, 1934

Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only which will describe it. One must search until one has discovered them, this noun, this verb, this adjective, and never rest content with approximations, never resort to trickery, however happy, or to vulgarism, in order to dodge the difficulty.

Guy de Maupassant

Hyacinth,” Lady Bridgerton said in a vaguely disapproving voice, “do try to speak in complete sentences.” Hyacinth looked at her mother with a surprised expression. “Biscuits. Are. Good.” She cocked her head to the side. “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” “Hyacinth.” “Noun. Verb. Adjective.” Colin said, wiping a crumb from his grinning face. “Sentence. Is. Correct.

Julia Quinn

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

Donald Hall

How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

Alan Stern

Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.

Gustave Flaubert

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

Deborah Tannen

The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.

Voltaire

Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

Rob Bell

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Robert M. Pirsig

Human, Allen, is an adjective, and its use as a noun is in itself regrettable.

William S. Burroughs

If the noun is good and the verb is strong, you almost never need an adjective.

J. Anthony Lukas

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

Kim Harrison

The left believes that we're an unwarranted, undeserving superpower because we're a racist, bigoted nation from our founding. So Obama presides over America's decline and tells everybody "get used to it. This is the new norm." The new norm is no full-time jobs. The new norm is government getting bigger. The new norm is you having no wage increases for 15 years. This is what the new norm is, as we entered the global marketplace. And the American people don't want any part of that. That's not America.

Rush Limbaugh

anything being perceived as being superior takes the noun. And everything that isn't, that's judged to be inferior, requires an adjective. So there are black novelists and novelists. There are women physicians and physicians. Male nurses and nurses.

Gloria Steinem

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!