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Quotes About Understanding

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
~ Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
~ Jack Kerouac
Women are complicated. We all know that.
~ Candice Swanepoel
Men who love women are loved by women
~ Zan Perrion
The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
~ Sydney Smith
Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.
~ Thomas Hardy
Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
~ Salman Rushdie
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
~ Agatha Christie
Men's eyes are in their heads; women's, in their hearts.
~ Ivan Panin
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.
~ Amy Bloom
I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
~ Robert B. Parker
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
~ Yasunari Kawabata
The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.
~ Joanna Russ
In my experience all women deserve someone better.
~ David Gemmell
I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
~ Garrett Hedlund
Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.
~ Peter Sellers
You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.
~ William Faulkner
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .
~ Janet Flanner
I've spent a life loving women and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.
~ Darren Aronofsky
Women are not to be hit. They're to be hugged and caressed.
~ Charlie Sheen
For we think back through our mothers if we are women.
~ Virginia Woolf
I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards cats and dogs.
~ Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate