Quotes by : Deborah Tannen

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down....

I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.

When did the word 'compromise' get compromised? When did the negative connotations of 'He was caught....

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell....

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation....

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -....

Communication is a continual balancing act juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence.....

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying,....

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing....