Quotes of Deborah Tannen - somelinesforyou

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life. ”

- Deborah Tannen

“ A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like memories of your childhood and the experience of your family. ”

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations. ”

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ 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

“ For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ”

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ 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 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

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ”

- Deborah Tannen

“ 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 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

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ 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

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ 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

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ If you come from, say, the northeastern part of the United States when you're listening you need to show you're alive. You need to talk along. That's the way you show you're interested. But in many parts of the United States if you talk along, that's rude, that's interruption… ”

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen

“ For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. ”

- Deborah Tannen

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

- Deborah Tannen
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