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Quotes About Understanding

Women wrap men with their second attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
~ Garry Marshall
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
~ Gertrude Stein
Women have allowed you to think that, which is a part of their inaccessibility in using their second attention.
~ Frederick Lenz
I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much.
~ Steven Tyler
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.
~ Robert Frost
If there's one thing I've learned about women, which I try to pass on to my boys, it's listening. Listen to the other side of the story first.
~ Rod Stewart
I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.
~ Paul Feig
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
~ Dee Dee Myers
Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision.
~ Denzel Washington
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
~ Doris Lessing
Hanging out with women on a platonic level is like spending time with someone from Europe. It's not better or worse, but it is different.
~ Dov Davidoff
Men have to recognize that women are not all the same when it comes to what can get them aroused.
~ Drew Pinsky
There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed.
~ Edgar Degas
Women who love only women may have a good point.
~ Edward Abbey
Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.
~ Edward Abbey
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
~ Eileen Wilks
Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The job of the baby is to learn.
~ Elizabeth Spelke
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
~ Ellen Goodman
I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.
~ Emily Giffin
I loved Stand By Me. I loved Tombstone. Give men a little credit. Maybe we'll be able to humanize women more and see more of their depth as people.
~ Evan Rachel Wood