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Quotes About Understanding

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.
~ James Thurber
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
~ Jane Austen
Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.
~ Jane Austen
When women have reclaimed their voices and men reclaimed their hearts, we won't be invading countries, we won't be feeling that we have the right to launch preemptive wars.
~ Jane Fonda
Certainly it's very often true that women tend to be a bit quieter and more prepared to sit there and let the animal tell you things.
~ Jane Goodall
I must be the mate of the man I had chosen; and if he would not come to my level, I must go to his.
~ Jane Swisshelm
Talk between women friends is always therapy.
~ Jayne Anne Phillips
Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.
~ Jeanne Phillips
The surest way to get what you need is to communicate.
~ Jeanne Phillips
I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just like, "Eww, women." That would be a big thing for me.
~ Jen Kirkman
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
~ Jenna McCarthy
Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.
~ Jenny Eclair
Men want to make women happy.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.
~ John Steinbeck
Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.
~ John Stuart Mill
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
~ Jose Bergamin
I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.
~ Josh Radnor
I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.
~ Josh Radnor
Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.
~ Judith Martin
Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.
~ Julia Quinn
Women bond differently, and I dont think men understand that.
~ Julie Garwood
[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.
~ June Diane Raphael
We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
~ Karen DeCrow