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...Hillary has lots of experience listening; most women spend many bored or happy hours listening to men. Good listeners always remember to keep their eyes on the person they're talking to without trying to see if there's someone more interesting standing behind." --DR. DEBORAH TANNEN, author, You Just Don't Understand
...Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, said at her roundtable discussion that women in political office are often subjected to scrutiny on trivial matters...
...media] often criticizes [female leaders] if their shoes clash with the carpet. And if they don't [clash], then they get criticized for that too," Tannen said...
Rucker A. Alex '99-'00, a member of the Institute of Politics' Student Advisory Committee, was at Tannen's table. She later described the conversation as fantastic...
...DEBORAH TANNEN, who gained a national following with her book You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, this week examines the cultural fallout from the trial of the President. "What's happened to President Clinton is just an extreme example of forces in our society that have been troubling me anyway," says Tannen. "An adversarial culture has sprouted up, and the trial was the apex of that...