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I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: About Adjective Also Change Common Else End Functions Most Noun Now One Thing Phenomena Say Something Something Else Start Thing Up Used Way Woman Words Would

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I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Away Believe Euphemism Lady Move Movement Part Reason Switch Wanted Woman Women I Believe I Believe The

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In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Also Animal Appropriate Avoid Because Biology Feel Female Idea Just Mammals Me More My Own Own Say Try Woman Word Writing I Feel

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My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Analyze Communications Conversations Discover Fail Job Why

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There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Affects Bond Bondage Connected Connection Does Each Each One Everything Free Kind Life Other Person Somebody Would You Your

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For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Amiable Apart Blow Chat Conversation Exploded Explosive Find Girl Glue Having Holds Perfectly Relationship Suddenly Talk Then Think Together Why Women Wounded You Yourself

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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Any Ask Attention Book Conversation Directions First Insight Issue Just Like Men Most Perhaps Question Stop Understand Which Why Women Women And Men You

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All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Aspire Connect Others Powerful Us Want

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My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Backgrounds Between Career Conversations Differences Different Early Ethnic Grew Interest Linguistic Men Regional Research Speakers Women Women And Men

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Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with it the need - indeed, the desire - to consider how your actions will affect the other person, and this can make you feel that you are no longer in control of your own life.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Actions Affect Always Any Carries Close Closeness Consider Control Daughters Desire Feel How Indeed Life Longer Make Many Mothers Need Other Own People Person Two Two People Will You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Sociologist

Born: June 7th, 1945

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