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My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Animals Architect Bluegrass Both Different Gardener House Landscape Manuscripts Near Our Parents Side Singer Sitting Something Type Wanted Were Would Writers

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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Away Back Been By The Time Cities Different Feel Forever Going Holiday Interesting Life Like Lived Long Long Life Look Makes Psyche Rather Rich Seem Spending Than Think Three Time Two Two Weeks Very Weeks You Your I Think

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A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Different Different Life Life Like Movie Sister Stars You Yourself

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In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Because Both Different Different Directions Directions Establishing First Focus Humans Independence Intimacy Key Low Means Men Need Orders Others Primary Ran Second Status Taking Tell Tend Though Women World

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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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Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Better Conversation Developed Different Friendship Inherently Men Much Over Premise Simply Styles Than Women Work Years

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I have two sisters; one is two years older, and one is eight years older. That helped me understand how completely different sister relationships can be.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Different Eight Helped How Me Older Relationships Sister Sisters Two Understand Years

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I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Different Different Ways Important Many Remember Sisters So Many Different Ways Think Ways I Think

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It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.

~Deborah Wiles

Topics: Also Assembly Because Different Each Each One Extension Go Kids Living Making Often Part Programs Requirements School Schools Work Writing

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#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

~Debra Granik

Topics: Anymore Body Born Different Doors Every Female Films Genius Give Hold Language Male Review The Doors Time Up Used Way You

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