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Kate Swift

  • ... language screens reality as a filter on a camera lens screens light waves.

    • Kate Swift,
    • in Casey Miller and Kate Swift, Words and Women ()
  • Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

    • Kate Swift,
    • in Casey Miller and Kate Swift, The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing ()

Kate Swift, U.S. nonsexist language pioneer, writer, editor

(1923 - 2011)