Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Deborah Tannen
Born: June 7, 1945 (age 79)
Bio: Deborah Frances Tannen is an American academic and professor of linguistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Known for:
- You Just Don't Understand (1990)
- That's Not What I Meant! (1987)
- Talking from 9 to 5 (1994)
- The argument culture (1998)