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

It can be the best of relationships and the worst of relationships - often at the same time. The bond between a mother and daughter is one of the strongest, but it's also among the most complicated.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

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

The allure of love is to have someone who knows you so well that you don't have to explain yourself. It is the promise of someone who cares enough about you to protect you against the world of strangers who do not wish you well.

Cooperation isn't the absence of conflict but a means of managing conflict.