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The chivalrous man who holds a door open or signals a woman to go ahead of him when he's driving is negotiating both status and connection.
— Deborah Tannen
Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.
— Deborah Tannen
Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
— Deborah Tannen
Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.
— Deborah Tannen
Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.
— Deborah Tannen
If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.
— Deborah Tannen
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
— Deborah Tannen
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
— Deborah Tannen
All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.
— Deborah Tannen
To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.
— 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
If women resent men's tendency to offer solutions to problems, men complain about women's refusal to take action to solve the problems.
— Deborah Tannen
A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.
— Deborah Tannen
More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.
— Deborah Tannen
We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
— Deborah Tannen
In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.
— Deborah Tannen
The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.
— Deborah Tannen
Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.
— Deborah Tannen
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
— Deborah Tannen
False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.
— Deborah Tannen
Smashing heads does not open minds.
— 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
The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
— Deborah Tannen
We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood - heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.
— Deborah Tannen
Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication
— Deborah Tannen