Quotes by : Deborah Tannen

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

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

Conversations with sisters can spark extremes of anger or extremes of love. Everything said between sisters....

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

When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothers....

The death of compromise has become a threat to our nation as we confront crucial issues such as the debt....

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