Deborah Tannen
Related The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share o... MIRIAM TOEWS Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other. CAROL SALINE It's something special, and he feels it needs to be treated specially. FRANK ZAITSHIK PHILIPPA GREGORY We have a very close team this year. The girls are like sisters to each other and the chemistry betw... DEB GAINES They're not just sisters and twins. They're best friends, and they care genuinely about each other. CHELSI WELCH You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN CAMERON DIAZ No matter what, they always had each other. How did people get through life without sisters? MICHELLE MADOW We took care of each other in life ... he protected his sisters and we'll take care of each other in... HEATHER KUNKLE If a person truly considers own opponent a termite ,then both will be never seen sharing the same pl... ANUJ SOMANY SUNDAY ADELAJA If two people stare at each other for more than a few seconds, it means they are about to either mak... ROBERT WRIGHT When you kiss someone either two things are happening.
You’re either using each other or you’re ... VALERIE ROSE STERRETT SUZY KASSEM Each member is allocated a budget that he or she can spend at his or her discretion. The same (criti... BURSON TAYLOR Each member is allocated a budget that he or she can spend at his or her discretion. The same [criti... BURSON TAYLOR My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe... BARRY HANNAH You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN It's a tragedy, and you can feel the spirit looking at the portraits. For each portrait, there's a w... ANNETTE POLAN ABHIJIT NASKAR BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH It's just easier this way because if we're having a bad time, you still have your sisters. We're so ... LAURA BACA ALEK WEK GUY FINLEY There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be tur... RICHARD TRUMKA You take any family or any five people and that's what it's about. It's about births, deaths, marria... PHIL COLLEN LUKE MACFARLANE GINGER ROGERS Anyone could do that, a brother and sister could give each other reciprocal benefits. How can that b... BRAD LUNA There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin... METTRIE L. WHIT STILLMAN This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON TRACEE ELLIS ROSS Either one of us is going to be happy to see one of us playing. We always talk to each other about h... CURTIS GRANDERSON LAINI TAYLOR DALAI LAMA XIV VIKTOR E. FRANKL The relationship between China and Bangladesh has registered all-round development in the three deca... HU JINTAO ISABEL ALLENDE We'll do anything for each other. We're a family. A lot of people don't see how such a big group of ... KATIMA UNDERWOOD ALICE HOFFMAN STEPHEN COVEY We feel we can be very honest with each other. We know how to put things across. We have a chemistry... LAURA BACA SOJOURNER TRUTH Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. AVIJEET DAS SHELLY CRANE Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing ea... LEE MELCHIONNI How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, p... OLIVER GASPIRTZ The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to... ABHIJEET SAWANT My family is a huge help. They help in any way they can. ... We do the same for each other. HEATHER GRISHAM GEORGE ELIOT MARK HADDON She and I have been curling together for more than 15 years. It's not new. We're the best of friends... JAMIE JOHNSON ELAINE DUNDY JOSEPHINE BAKER No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicke... LAUREN WEISBERGER STEVEN WRIGHT STEVEN WRIGHT STEVEN WRIGHT The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot... PATRICIA RIGGEN ELBERT HUBBARD FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo... DAVID CHAMBLESS FREDERICK BUECHNER Surprise is in seeing a relationship in which one cheats others with their knowledge or others dupe ... ANUJ SOMANY You both make each other want to be better people, and that’s a feckin’ rare thing. Far too many... R.J. PRESCOTT TOM CRUISE We'll tell each other that we love each other and I'm always going to be there for him. AMANDA STEPHENSON DAPHNE DU MAURIER TAYLOR SWIFT We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ... JONATHAN CHEN VERA NAZARIAN There aren't any settlement which would be, on the whole, closed to the return of displaced persons.... DMITRY KOZAK That's the most gratifying thing in the world, helping each other. CRAIG ROBINSON SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What's at issue here is that a special fund was established for these families. It was specially fun... BILLY TAUZIN ANTHONY STORR ANTHONY STORR ERNEST HEMINGWAY APOLO OHNO Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier. LILLIAN HELLMAN TORI AMOS We need to play no matter what classification either team is. It's been a good, healthy rivalry and ... BOB HOWELL I don't know any better place to do it other than a good, specially constructed facility that's offs... DONALD SHEPPERD You're the sun, I am the moon. We never get close to each other, yet, we cannot be apart. We were me... CHEENU They see each other in school and in church. They always have something to talk about. They care abo... DENNIS RINE It was like horrible. Everybody was just upset and we were all there for each other, just holding ea... ASHLEY THOMAS From here on out, we've just got to lean on each other and push each other and be there to support e... GINO GUYER GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE ELIOT HERMANN HESSE It's really special because we've all been around each other for so long and we all know how each ot... KYLE PIETAK Because two people in love don't make a hive mind. Neither should they want to be a hive mind, to th... GRAHAM JOYCE CHRISTINE FEEHAN OPRAH WINFREY JANE AUSTEN No one is going to be jealous or anything. We're both really good friends, and we're both going to r... ANDY HARTMANN
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DEBORAH EISENBERG I always need huge amounts of time to do anything. DEBORAH EISENBERG To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form. DEBORAH EISENBERG For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses. DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient. DEBORAH EISENBERG We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re... DEBORAH EISENBERG I just want to be on my own branch twittering. DEBORAH EISENBERG I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk... DEBORAH EISENBERG It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b... DEBORAH EISENBERG I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided... DEBORAH EISENBERG The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it. DEBORAH EISENBERG I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel... DEBORAH EISENBERG I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous... DEBORAH EISENBERG Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about... DEBORAH EISENBERG I would like to never ever think about any political issues. DEBORAH EISENBERG The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ... DEBORAH EISENBERG Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f... DEBORAH EISENBERG Fiction is a report from the interior. DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end. DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... DEBORAH MOGGACH Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ... DEBORAH BULL I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH KERR DEBORAH NORVILLE I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE DEBORAH NORVILLE Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You... DEBORAH MAILMAN The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug... DEBORAH EISENBERG My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb... DEBORAH MAILMAN DEBORAH SAMPSON The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo... DEBORAH COX I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d... DEBORAH COX I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno... DEBORAH MAILMAN Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce... DEBORAH WILES DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH REBER DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH DAY True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th... DEBORAH BARNES The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th... DEBORAH MOGGACH The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i... DEBORAH MAILMAN I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON DEBORAH SAMPSON Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80... DEBORAH BULL Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,... DEBORAH KASS DEBORAH NORVILLE When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when... DEBORAH COX It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my... DEBORAH EISENBERG DEBORAH SAMPSON The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you DEBORAH WILES There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ... DEBORAH HARKNESS DEBORAH SAMPSON I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl... DEBORAH ELLIS When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a... DEBORAH ELLIS Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears. DEBORAH BRODIE Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be... DEBORAH BRODIE What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends. DEBORAH BRODIE Count the cost of everything.DEBORAH BRODIE Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat. DEBORAH BRODIE It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ... DEBORAH MOGGACH He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t... DEBORAH COX There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people,... DEBORAH MAILMAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s... DEBORAH KASS I prefer Princess. I would love to be known as a diva later on in life when I've had far more ex... DEBORAH COX The catheter allows us to bathe the entire abdominal area with a high concentration of chemotherapy ... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's the kind of thing you sort of always hope you're going to see. DEBORAH ARMSTRONG It's very good news. A lot of larger institutions have already adopted this approach. At least for t... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagn... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG IP therapy is not a new treatment approach, but it has not been widely accepted as the gold standard... DEBORAH ARMSTRONG We want to make this a model for other communities in the future. DEBORAH ABBOTT The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's ec... DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel. DEBORAH ABBOTT The goal is to create a new use for the manure that's surrounding the town ? as a biofuel, DEBORAH ABBOTT My problem is that I want to smoke the cigar and for someone else to light it. I want to blow out sm... DEBORAH LEVY I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every di... DEBORAH COX DEBORAH SAMPSON One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and ... DEBORAH MOGGACH DEBORAH DAY DEBORAH RANEY DEBORAH NORVILLE Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife... DEBORAH HARKNESS A government that operates under the guise of capitalism does not necessarily mean it is free of the... DEBORAH SIMPSON Ninety percent of board members said they were there to make a difference in the organization. DEBORAH HECHINGER Accessories in general add warmth to a room, but you can switch out your accessories to showcase onl... DEBORAH CARPENTER I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious reade... DEBORAH HARKNESS In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treati... DEBORAH TALL We always see a few orders for wedding invitations with wedding dates around college graduation time... DEBORAH GOMIA DEBORAH SAMPSON U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria a... DEBORAH WHITE I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist,... DEBORAH COX 'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's not a failure if a marriage or partnership ends after a certain number of years. I think, i... DEBORAH MOGGACH It's a very quick place to come in. I'm not going on 21 at lunchtime for anything unless it's a dire... DEBORAH DURHAM They said the wreath is still on the door. DEBORAH ROBERTS DEBORAH SAMPSON The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it. DEBORAH COX
For a moment we glared at each other, stubborn as cats on the stable wall, full of mutual resentment... 
Which turned out to be no problem, ... Because we really did feel like sisters, and sisters can get ... 
To be specially treated is to take a special step 
If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not kno... 
Either one is promiscuous or in a relationship - it cannot be both at the same time. 
My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any rela... 
When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no roo... 
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serv... 
Gay marriage - it's not about two people being gay: it's about two people who love each othe... 
When two people love each other, they don't look at each other, they look in the same direction 
There's the right person, or right people, for each other. There is that order that's search... 
I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there&#... 
Liraz was special. Specially antisocial. Spectacularly, even. 
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for e... 
Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered by sweeping statements. “Life” does no... 
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. 
Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and p... 
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell p... 
Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, ... 
But... we will always be drawn together. We'll always crave each other. We'll always be in tune with... 
What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to stre... 
And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people al... 
[W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they ... 
I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand... 
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ... 
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ... 
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ... 
If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate 
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo... 
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo... 
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me. 
I wondered how it could be that two people who had loved could yet have such a misconception of each... 
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up. 
It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."... 
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each... 
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partn... 
A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship / a setting in which each partne... 
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it 
It's a very weird relationship because we all need each other to train. We push each other to be str... 
I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other. 
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen ea... 
What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined ... to strengthen ... 
All being, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. Man or woman, vagabond or citizen, lover ... 
They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had fa... 
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be. 
Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection wou... 
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishi... 
We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken. 
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur... 
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only... 
Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ... 
Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky 
When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen. 
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err... 
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to... 
I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. 
I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they... 
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. 
God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness. 
Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain...