To say that a person feels listened to means a lot more than just their ideas get heard. It's a sign of respect. It makes people feel valued.

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.

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.

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.

It was a huge comfort to have a person who'd keep you honest with yourself and who also gave you safe harbour.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

I don't really watch anything on TV. It's not really a priority for me.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was Gotcha!

The room was not impressively large, even by Manhattan apartment-house standards, but its accumulated furnishings might have lent a snug appearance to a banquet hall in Valhalla.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

I think we can remember our past without valorizing parts of our past that we ought to see as wrong.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.