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

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

To say anything about women and men without marking oneself as either feminist or anti-feminist, male-basher or apologist for men seems as impossible for a woman as trying to get dressed in the morning without inviting interpretations of her character. Sitting at the conference table musing on these matters, I felt sad to think that we women didn't have the freedom to be unmarked that the men sitting next to us had. Some days you just want to get dressed and go about your business. But if you're a woman, you can't, because there is no unmarked woman.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.