American - Sociologist | June 7, 1945 -
Birth order is fascinating, and it is forever.
Deborah Tannen
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The trickiest thing about the double bind is that it operates imperceptibly, like shots from a gun with a silencer.
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The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
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The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.
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If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
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People vary. You change your style, your hair, and the way you dress. Talking differently will be a part of that.
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The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.
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There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.
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