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

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

Deborah Tannen
Mistake, Believe, Communication
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Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Deborah Tannen
Communication, Males, Female
Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.42, Harper Collins

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.

Deborah Tannen
Communication, Independence, Cogs
Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Deborah Tannen
Communication, Life Is, Conversation
Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.13, Harper Collins

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

Deborah Tannen
Communication, Independence, Cogs
Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.27, Harper Collins

The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.

Deborah Tannen
Sex, Women, Communication

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