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We did some research that showed that the very first word of your message that you send a girl - when we looked at men sending messages to women - the very first word can have a tremendous... can have a very accurate prediction of whether you're going to get a reply.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

We must tell girls their voices are important.

The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Every girl I've gone out with has said something to me first.