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Quotes About Perspective

Relationship humour gets the most laughs. If I'm able to get the women laughing, men will have to laugh along because they would be scared to death.
~ Vir Das
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
~ Myrtle Reed
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
~ Garry Marshall
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
~ Gertrude Stein
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.
~ Gertrude Stein
It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.
~ Frederick Lenz
Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men.
~ Gish Jen
Now we know that women can do what men can do..., but we don't know that men can do what women can do.
~ Gloria Steinem
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
~ Warren Farrell
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 are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.
~ David Eddings
The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.
~ Dawn Johnsen
Women communicate differently and process information differently, which leads them to resolve conflicts differently.
~ Dee Dee Myers
You just can't win. Men have very recent land mines in their heads. Women have recorded conversations and photographs in their heads from 15 years ago.
~ Denis Leary
The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in challenging situations and see how they deal with it or don't deal with it.
~ Denise Di Novi
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
~ Diana Trilling
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
~ Doris Lessing
Women initiate most domestic violence.
~ Dov Charney
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
I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.
~ Dylan Frances Penn