Deborah Tannen

(231 votes)   Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

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(98 votes)   Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

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(44 votes)   Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

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(43 votes)   Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

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(43 votes)   The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

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(40 votes)   For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

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(37 votes)   We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

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(37 votes)   We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

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(32 votes)   Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

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