22 ordspråk av Deborah Tannen
Deborah Tannen
 Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone. |
| Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. |
| Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. |
| I think it's that the same dynamics that go on between any close relationship go on here. It's just particularly intense between mothers and daughters. |
| If you come from, say, the northeastern part of the United States when you're listening you need to show you're alive. You need to talk along. That's the way you show you're interested. But in many parts of the United States if you talk along, that's rude, that's interruption. Now, we all agree interruption is rude. But we don't agree on what constitutes an interruption. |
| It was just so obvious that everyone wanted to talk about the mother-daughter relationship. I think it's because women really are struggling, because it's a very important relationship in your life. |
| It's our tendency to approach every problem as if it were a fight between two sides. We see it in headlines that are always using metaphors for war. It's a general atmosphere of animosity and contention that has taken over our public discourse. |
| Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations. |
| Many of us dismiss talk that does not convey important information as worthless - meaningless small talk if it's a social setting or "empty rhetoric" if it's public. Such admonitions as "Skip the small talk, " "Get to the point," or "Why don't you say what you mean?" may seem to be reasonable. But they are reasonable only if information is all that counts. This attitude toward talk ignores the fact that people are emotionally involved with each other and that talking is the major way be establish, maintain, monitor and adjust our relationships. |
| Part of the reason (motherly advice) bugs us as daughters is because our mothers are so powerful in our lives. They loom like giants. The reason mothers keep at it is because they're so powerless. They cannot get you to do what is so obvious to them you should do. |
| Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women. |
| Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball |
| Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball |
| The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation -- or a relationship. |
| The reaction to the book has been so overwhelming; it has totally blown me away. It's clear there's been a need out there. |
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