Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

When people realize that in the long run you may be turning off the audiences more, even though they will look temporarily--in the end they turn away, we really need to develop other metaphors and not talk about two sides, but talk about all sides.

When those closest to us respond to events differently than we do, when they seem to see the same scene as part of a different play, when they say things that we could not imagine saying in the same circumstances, the ground on which we stand seems to tremble and our footing is suddenly unsure.

Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.

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

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