More men feel comfortable doing "public speaking," while more women feel comfortable doing "private" speaking.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

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

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.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

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

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

The desire for freedom and independence becomes more of an issue for many men in relationships, whereas interdependence and connection become more of an issue for many women.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

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.

Children will often rise or fall accordingto the expectations of loved ones in their lives.

Our existence and our environment enclose entities of divinity.

You have the capacity to do the work.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.