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Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

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

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal things.

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

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that can blow it apart. That's why you can think you're having a perfectly amiable chat, then suddenly find yourself wounded by the shrapnel from an exploded conversation.

I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

I'm at my best when I'm talking about relationships, talking about women, talking about situations and stories.