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

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

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.

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.

Critiquing relieves you of the responsibility of doing integrative thinking.

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

False dichotomies are often at the heart of discord.