Deborah Tannen Quotes

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

Deborah Tannen

Quotes to Explore

I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Kids
- Friends
- Parents
You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

Vanessa Ferlito
- Women
- Love
- Respect
I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

Eden Sher
- Women
- Feel
- Young
To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.

Ferdinand Marcos
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.

Rachel Weisz
- Work
- Women
- Progress
When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

Sam Taylor-Johnson
- Trying
- Why
- Beautiful