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Deborah Tannen Quotes

In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: sociologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 7, 1945

Topics

Women Focus Men World Key Need

While I am aware of no counsel on whether kissing should be reserved only for post-mission dating or courtship, I am aware of plenty of counsel concerning honesty in our actions and treating others with respect and kindness. Casual attitudes about expressions of affection such as kissing can cause much grief and heartache.

Kindness Honesty Respect Grief I Am

Being fit and being in the best shape that I can be helps me be the best mom as well.

Best Me Mom I Can Shape Well

My mother was a reader; my father was a reader. Not anything particularly sophisticated. My mother read fat historical or romantic novels; my father liked to read Westerns, Zane Grey, that kind of stuff. Whatever they brought in, I read.

John Edgar Wideman

Father Mother Romantic Fat Kind

You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Fashion You Country Up Behave Just

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

Me Growing Up Impossible Student Up

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Cats Pet Grow Lonely Anxious Even

Governing is about making tough decisions, but it's also about figuring out a better way to do things.

Tough Better Decisions Way Out

For better or worse, I have a lot of vaudeville circus skills that you just can't showcase in Aaron Sorkin's work.

Work Better You Skills Circus Just

Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.

Love I Am Story Better Media Books

Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.

Easy You Sometimes Lucky Things Get

The thing is, what most people don't understand is that there are so many of us growing up in Europe who are not free to be ourselves. We're not allowed to be who we are. We are not free to marry or to be in relationships with people that we choose. We can't even pick our own career. This is the norm in the Muslim heartlands of Europe.

People Growing Up Free Choose Career

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

Business Creative Cool You Place

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