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Quotes About Understanding

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
~ Jenny Shipley
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
~ D. H. Lawrence
If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
~ Mignon McLaughlin
When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.
~ Amy Dickinson
It is impossible for a man to love his wife whole heartedly without loving all women somewhat. I suppose that the converse must be true of women.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.
~ Roseanne Barr
There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don't talk of them, I prefer talking to them
~ Gianni Agnelli
Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.
~ Samuel Rogers
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
~ Ken Follett
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
~ Margaret Drabble
Women are not for using. Women are for loving.
~ Kevin Leman
Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
~ Shawn Wayans
Through men ... you learn how the world is. Through women you learn what it is.
~ Cees Nooteboom
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
~ Pearl S. Buck
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Women who talk about football tactics, it's beautiful. I find that fantastic. And you know what a 4-3-3 is, right?
~ Laurent Blanc
These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
~ Anna Friel
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
~ Gabrielle Union
Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.
~ Garry Marshall
A woman's best qualities do not reside in her intellect, but in her affections. She gives refreshment by her sympathies, rather than by her knowledge.
~ Samuel Smiles
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
~ Gertrude Atherton