Deborah Tannen
Related We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They... ELIZABETH LONSDORF We wanted to teach the mothers separately, so the daughters could see them as educators. The mothers... BARBARA DANCY Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of pe... PAUL ROBESON The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their s... IRIS CHANG DEBORAH TANNEN Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing. GRETCHEN WILSON AMY TAN Mothers and daughters together are a powerful force to be reckoned with MELIA KEETON-DIGBY AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them RAFIA SHUJAAT MICHELLE OBAMA Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an... AUGUSTINE HIPPO AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughter... NAS AMY CHUA EZRA TAFT BENSON Overweight mothers are more likely to have overweight daughters and sons. MARCIA BARBER No customs nor traditions symbolize that chapter of our lives we daughters open our pages to, when o... MAICHEE SUMMER FATEMA MERNISSI Fathers should teach their sons how to earn money because mothers teach their daughters how to spend... VIKRANT PARSAI MY MOTHER GETS DRESSED DAPHNE GOTTLIEB God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts MUHAMMAD What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is the ... PETER NOONE SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR LAWRENCE WELK SARAH ADDISON ALLEN When I was a teenager, most fathers tended to go berserk when I asked their daughters on a date.... ... GARY REILLY NICHOLAS KRISTOF I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matt... ELLEN PAGE And so, they wait. Mothers, wives and daughters wait to place flowers at those graves -- and to star... BRAD JOHNSON RASMENIA MASSOUD GILLIAN FLYNN We have a lot of mothers and daughters that come, but every year, we have more men because we're not... CARRIE EDGAR SUSIE ORBACH RICHELLE MEAD And you know the officers are truly, truly concerned with the other officers who will be coming into... LAWRENCE WILLIAMSON JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN JANE D. HULL CARRE OTIS What's really fun is seeing mothers bringing their daughters to the shows. And the best part is ... PETER NOONE GILLIAN FLYNN Some narcissistic leaders are models of icy reserve while others have the emotional self-control of ... SANDY HOTCHKISS GLORIA STEINEM At the bottom, all wars are the same because they involve death and maiming and wounding, and grievi... TIM O'BRIEN Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present. JANICE DICKINSON GLORIA STEINEM LISA KESSLER YUVRAJ SINGH GILLIAN ANDERSON It is not acceptable to force mothers to testify against their daughters, to make lawyers testify ag... JOHN CONYERS Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different po... KATHERINE HOWE ELIZABETH BERG JEANETTE WINTERSON The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter. ANITA DIAMANT We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation ... ANNE ROBINSON A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. B... SARAH RUHL Allison and Kate (her daughters) were 7 and 4 (when their brother passed away), and I wanted them to... ERIN HULSHIZER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE NENIA CAMPBELL They did not want to follow in their parents' footsteps and be housebound, ... And they strived for ... CINDY CHU They did not want to follow in their parents' footsteps and be housebound. And they strived for inde... CINDY CHU JOYCE CAROL OATES ADRIENNE RICH Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common. They fear when their babies start walking, the... DEBBY RUSSELL Mothers of preschoolers have certain fears in common, ... They fear when their babies start walking,... DEBBY RUSSELL RYAN ZINKE LJUPKA CVETANOVA FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE DEBORAH TANNEN I think fathers were put on Earth to embarrass their daughters. CATE CAMPBELL JEAN-LUC GODARD A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because eve... TONY HALE JEREMY TAYLOR It's been real positive for us to have the parents being mandated to come with their sons and daught... JAMES JORDAN VANESSA WILLIAMS She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool... ELOISA JAMES MILAN KUNDERA KRISTIN HANNAH JIM BUTCHER RALPH LAUREN JODI PICOULT NEIL GAIMAN Having a little girl has been like following an old treasure map with the important paths torn away. HEATHER GUDENKAUF She has called your mothers, your aunts, your grandmothers, your daughters, your sons and husbands t... MARTHA BURK GERMANY KENT They're almost like daughters to me. MARK VOGT JOE WRIGHT People still think that, you know, it might be okay for a man, but it wouldn't happen to women. Moth... BRENDA JOHNSON I was essentially gagged, ... I was walking on eggshells the last eight months or so until I decided... JAMES YEE Honestly, when Bill and I visit, we don't talk about football as much as we do about our families. H... MIKE HOLMGREN You can talk about things indirectly, but if you want to talk how people really talk, you have to ta... BOB SAGET I'm not trying to be your daughters role model. I'm trying to be my role model and my daughters role... NERISSA IRVING DEBORAH TANNEN My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and ... CHUCK PAGANO JACK CANFIELD ANNIE LENNOX We as women are all winners, whether we are daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, and that's who I ... JACKIE WILLIAMS These people don't go to clubs anymore. But they don't have an outlet for it. They come to my class,... GREG TALBOTT Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I dinnae get people, like they all want to be watched, to be seen, like all the time. They put up th... JENNI FAGAN
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DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re... DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering. DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk... DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided... DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel... DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous... DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues. DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ... DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f... DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior. DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ... DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH KERR DEBORAH NORVILLE I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb... DEBORAH MAILMAN DEBORAH SAMPSON The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno... DEBORAH MAILMAN Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,... DEBORAH KASS DEBORAH NORVILLE When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my... 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DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s... DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex... DEBORAH COX The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn... 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Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ... 
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant... 
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, an... 
I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautifu... 
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, an... 
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-... 
Mothers, stay close to your daughters. Earn and deserve their love and respect. Be united with their... 
One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize tha... 
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daug... 
One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters. 
There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters. 
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they ac... 
Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother. 
I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comf... 
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they t... 
I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have
Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th... 
Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country. 
My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make thei... 
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more lik... 
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more... 
Every generation, the nine daughters of Zeus are reborn, and with their rebirth are also nine Guardi... 
When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being... 
I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives... 
I am thinking about the way that life can be so slippery; the way that a twelve-year-old girl lookin... 
She was a monster, but she was my monster. 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
When mothers warn their daughters about all the cold nasty men out there who will only break their t... 
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is trem... 
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. 
I have seen America's sons, daughters, mothers, and fathers fight valiantly for our freedom and ... 
Not everyone has the time to be normal. 
Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters. 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after he... 
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d... 
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her wo... 
As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, kee... 
Because I know my daughter," she said. "And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure ... 
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept, ... It's not abou... 
All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college ... 
How big are souls anyway?" asked Coraline.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
You've got these six women - five daughters and Mrs Bennet - all talking over each other, all wantin... 
Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A moth... 
Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The c... 
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my ... 
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur... 
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only... 
Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ... 
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky 
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. 
I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good. 
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the las... 
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err... 
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to... 
There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. 
Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain... 
I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up ...