Judith Martin

“Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.”

“For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.”

“Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.”

“The mistake people keep making is that if they find a wonderful new tool, like email, they have to give up all others. They don't. You have simply added another very useful means to your com...”

“First. I began my career as a copy girl. and the White House coverage, for example, was in the then-Women's section. So it was social coverage. It wasn't news, although we often got rather s...”

“If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.”

“The language of clothing is high symbolism and we all, in moments where we need to know this, realize it.”