Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's. — Quoted

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“Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.”

Deborah Tannen · Power

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Deborah Tannen

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Relationship

Deborah Tannen

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

Women

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.

Loneliness

Jean de la Bruyere

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Power