Quote of the day
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Robin Lakoff

Born: May 24, 1942 (age 83)
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)