Deborah Tannen Quotes

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Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations. - Deborah Tannen quote.
Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
— Deborah Tannen You Just Don’t Understand: Men and Women in Conversation

life conversation

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. - Deborah Tannen quote.
Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence.
— Deborah Tannen You Just Don’t Understand

communication

Though all human beings 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. - Deborah Tannen quote.
Though all human beings 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.
— Deborah Tannen You Just Don’t Understand

men and women intimacy