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Quotes About Misunderstanding

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.
~ Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt
Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
~ Amy Bloom
Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When I'm saying hysteria, I'm referring to Freud, because all the women were coming to him with symptoms and seeking help, and he just called it hysteria.
~ Cybill Shepherd
Every woman is wrong until she cries.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!
~ Robin Williams
Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.
~ Charlie Huston
I'm afraid to answer that. I've heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.
~ Cassandra Clare
I think that's what Toni Morrison and Alice Walker understand, the secret language of women. That it's not a secret at all; men just don't know how to listen.
~ Marlon James
You guys on the white horses keep trying to save women in distress, not realizing you just end up with a distressed woman.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women don't like guys who are dangerous. Women just want us to think that because women are trying to kill us.
~ Dennis Miller
Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.
~ Lara Flynn Boyle
Women, O, women! They'll find the baddest meanin' in your words & hold it up.
~ David Mitchell
In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.
~ Frederick Lenz
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.
~ Patricia McConnell
I had a terrible time with feminists in the Seventies. They hated me, those women. I think they hated everything.
~ David Bailey
Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
~ David Eddings
You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
~ Denis Leary
Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame.
~ Drake
BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.
~ Emma Watson
... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.
~ Fanny Burney
Men always look differently at women, even if it's not your intention it is wrongly interpreted as such.
~ Gao Xingjian
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
~ George Bernard Shaw
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
~ Gertrude Stein