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Quotes About Understanding

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.
~ Frank Sinatra
Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
~ Gelett Burgess
Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
~ George Eliot
You know, I've always considered women to be people.
~ George R. R. Martin
Women are better than they are reputed to be: they don't mock the tears men shed unless they themselves are responsible for them.
~ Georges Courteline
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
~ Gertrude Stein
I think that there is clearly an understanding that the women's market is an important market. It's still often perceived as separate when it's not.
~ Gloria Steinem
Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.
~ Guido Palau
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
~ H. L. Mencken
Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.
~ H. L. Mencken
Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.
~ Helen Reddy
I can't speak for all women, but I do think that... I mean, me and my girlfriends, we definitely... we're in crisis on a continuous basis...or at least monthly, for sure, I don't know.
~ Helen Slater
A man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.
~ Honore de Balzac
Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with
~ Illeana Douglas
The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.
~ Isabel Paterson
If you tell anything to a woman ... it's like putting it in the papers.
~ Ivan Klíma
A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.
~ J. B. Priestley
Women put guys through tests all the time.
~ J. B. Smoove
The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.
~ Jack Kerouac
I don't know how women stop being friends with other women.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal