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

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The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

Deborah Tannen

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.

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Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

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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.

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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.

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