Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

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

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

There is no end to wonder once one starts really looking.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

If love never lasts forever, then what's forever for?

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.