“I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they als...” — Deborah Tannen Quote

I interviewed more than 100 women about their sisters, but if they also had brothers, I asked them to compare. Most said they talked to their sisters more often, at greater length and, yes, about more personal topics. This often meant that they felt closer to their sisters, but not always.

My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

I think it is important to remember that there are so many different ways to be sisters.

Americans simply ask for, not just Democrats in the House but also the Senate has asked the President for a clear plan as it relates to dealing with the issue of Iraq and our troops and making sure that we can bring families together in the very near future.

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.

The only downside to playing the violin is that you never know when you're going to be asked to play. I could be out to dinner or having a drink at a bar, and someone could just give me a violin, and I've got to be ready to play.

The Four Aces asked me if I'd like to sing with them as they didn't really have a lead singer.