- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a world of status, independence is key, because a primary means of establishing status is to tell others what to do, and taking orders is a marker of low status. Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The dynamic of fathers and sons seems to be more around competition regarding things such as knowledge, accomplishments, expertise.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother cared a lot about clothes. It was a point of friction because when I was a teenager, and I only wanted to wear my father's shirts, and I never wanted to wear makeup, she would say: 'Put on lipstick.' That was her thing.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mothers or daughters assume that words only mean one thing. 'If I feel criticised, that has to be the whole story', and 'if I feel I am being helpful, that has to be the whole story'.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
- Lady
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the switch from 'lady' to 'woman' was part of the women's movement. 'Lady' was a euphemism for 'woman,' and that was one reason that we wanted to move away from it.
- Animal
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own writing, I avoid 'female' and try to say 'woman' because I feel that the word 'female' has connotations of not just biology but also non-human mammals. The idea of 'female' to me is more appropriate for a female animal.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Right' and 'wrong' aren't words a linguist uses.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've long believed that if you understand how conversational styles work, you can make adjustments in conversations to get what you want in your relationships.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
- Judgmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.
- Exploded
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- Nov 07, 2020
For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020