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

Relationships are made of talk – and talk is for girls and women. – Deborah Tannen

Other quotes by 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

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relationship
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Deborah Tannen
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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

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alone
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If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children. – Coretta Scott King

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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing. – Bela Lugosi

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My favorite play in drama school was The Bacchae. Its about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – its related to the word bacchanal – and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires. – Hugh Jackman

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A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. – Conan OBrien

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. – Erica Jong

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