Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.

Quote by Deborah Tannen

Topics: Love Quotes, Romance Quotes

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way...

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way...

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To...

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To...

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives...

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives...

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to...

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to...

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

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

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making...

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with...

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes. There is too much fraternizing with...

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking...

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking...

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

Vanity, thy name is

Vanity, thy name is

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost

Now comes the mystery.

Now comes the mystery.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the...

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...

Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they...