Deborah Tannen Quotes
		
	 
	
		
	
	
	
		The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Deborah Tannen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vidal Sassoon 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vera Wang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Quincy Jones 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Barbara Sukowa 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Damien Hirst 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Napoleon Bonaparte 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand, and they are storming city council and county commissioner meetings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bob Beauprez 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Hodgman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I blurb a lot of books by women, and I'm eager to provide encouragement and support for young women. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jennifer Egan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Bram Stoker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made Rebecca Wells's 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood' and Ann Brashares's 'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants' into best-selling novels and successful films. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Deborah Tannen