1.  We can conclude from these differences that for girls , talk creates intimacy ; but for boys, talk maintains independence and status.

2.  For women, talk creates intimacy and their greatest fear is being pushed away.

3.  For girls, intimacy which is created by talk is the fabric of relationship.

4.  The root reason of the problem is "the systematic differences in childhood socialization" where for girls, talk creates intimacy, but boys "prefer doing things together".

5.  For women, talk creates intimacy , while for men, doing things together is the cement that binds a relationship.

6.  For women talk creates intimacy.

7.  For women, talk creates intimacy.

8.  By and large, talk creates intimacy while men are on guard to protect themselves from being put down and pushed around.

9.  Then, ,the author comes to the conclusion: the reason for the differences is that "for women, talk creates intimacy(paragraph13)" while "men live in a hiererchical world, where talk maintains independence and status(paragraph13)".

10.  Talk creates intimacy for women, .but maintains independence and status for men.