“Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.”
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The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.
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 underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
