Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Robin Lakoff
Born: May 24, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Robin Tolmach Lakoff is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her 1975 book Language and Woman's Place is often credited with establishing language and gender as an object of study in linguistics and other disciplines.
Known for:
- Language and Woman's Place (1972)
- The Language War (2000)
- Talking power (1964)