Quotes About Communication

The same is true for wives. How do you know you are a good wife unless your husband tells you that you are? If you are defensive and feel threatened by your husband's input, you won't meet his needs and won't fulfill your role in his life. Let him tell his truth to you without losing his dignity. Let him know that he is your number one priority in life, except for Jesus, and being a good wife to him is one of your highest goals in life.

Thank you adult mittens, for allowing me to give people the finger without them knowing it.

O amor só mente para dizer maior verdade.

Quem muito se evita, se convive

Eles se disseram, assim eles dois, coisas grandes em palavras pequenas, ti a mim, me a ti, e tanto. Contudo, e felizes, alguma outra coisa se agitava neles, confusa - assim rosa-amor-espinhos-saudade.

Se ninguém entende ninguém, e ninguém nunca entenderá nada, jamis; esta é a prática verdade.

Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

I am a writer. Imagining what someone would say or do comes to me as naturally as breathing.

Why do you always have to be right. Why do you always have to have the last word. For once in your life just let it go.

As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become...

You talk crazy any more and I'll leave. Leave. For Christ's sake leave. She would not take her eyes from the dry wash. All right. Don't, he would say then. Don't. Why do you say those things. Why do you fight. He would sit on the bed and put his head in his hands. To find out if you're alive.

He would say something and she would say something and before either of them knew it they would be playing out a dialogue so familiar that it drained the imagination, blocked the will, allowed them to drop words and whole sentences and still arrive at the cold conclusion.

Because we were both writers and both worked at home our days were filled with the sound of each other's voice

As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.

We tell each other stories in order to live.

I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language

It is a good idea, then, to keep in touch, and I suppose that keeping in touch is what notebooks are all about.

At a point during the summer it occurred to me that I had no letters from John, not one. We had only rarely been far or long apart.

You see the point. I want to tell you the truth, and already I have told you about the wide rivers.

I remember thinking that I needed to discuss this with John.

I don't know what I think until I write about it.

Whenever I hear about the woman's trip, which is often, I think a lot about nothin'-says-lovin'-like-something-from-the-oven and the Feminine Mystique and how it is possible for people to be the unconscious instruments of values they would strenuously reject on a conscious level, but I do not mention this to Barbara.

We imagined we knew everything the other thought, even when we did not necessarily want to know it, but in fact, I have come to see,we knew not the smallest fraction of what there was to know.