Quotes About Understanding

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

What should all men know about women? That we are always right and you should just agree.

Many women feel it is natural to consult with their partners at every turn, while many men automatically make more decisions without consulting their partners.

Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken.

Healthy boundaries are important, but you may be building a brick wall when a picket fence would do.

It is said that friendship between women is only a suspension of hostilities.

I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

I've always had something in my heart where I root for guys who struggle with women.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

I'm not someone who ever enjoys violence against women or children.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys, and women more than men.

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.

What do women want? A guy they can't drive crazy. There aren't many around. But they try. They can't help it, it's their nature.

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to those who love us.

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

I've never been monogamous. It might happen, but it never has yet. I don't understand women, I'm off that kick.

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.