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About Grade 9 and Grade 10, I had a fantastic drama teacher, and it was one of the first subjects I actually felt that I was good at. I wasn't a mathematician. Didn't like science, any of those subjects. English and Drama were the two subjects that I loved and felt that I was good at.

~Deborah Mailman

Topics: About Actually Any Drama English Fantastic Felt First Good Grade Had Like Loved Mathematician Science Subjects Teacher Those Two Were

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My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

~Deborah Moggach

Topics: Drama First Must Novel Novels Pakistan Set Several Sisters Started Tv Wrote You

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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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There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Amazement Babies Born Excitement First Impact More Subsequent

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I am the youngest of three girls. My first linguistics book was a study of 'New York Jewish conversational style'. That was my dissertation.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Am Book Conversational Dissertation First Girl Jewish Linguistics New New York Study Style Three York Youngest I Am

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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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One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Between Casual Conversations Far Field First Found Gender Interrupted Language Men More Often Studies Were West Women Women And Men

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It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Conversations Did Each First Found Interrupted Men Might More Often Other Seem Studied Surprising Talking Than Were Women Women And Men Work

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When Clinton first appeared on the national stage back in 1992, the young wife of the Arkansas governor running for president, she kept her natural-brown hair off her face with a headband.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Appeared Arkansas Back Clinton Face First Governor Hair Her Kept National Off President Running She Stage Wife Young

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The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

~Deborah Tannen

Topics: Actually Come Field First Focused Gender Language Might Seem Study

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