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Quotes About Perspective

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
~ Edward Abbey
I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet.
~ Edward Abbey
In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.
~ Edward Abbey
It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.
~ Edward Abbey
For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
~ Edward Abbey
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
~ Eileen Wilks
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
How different men were to women!
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
I see a lot of women who can't travel when they're young, and then their kids grow up and they become amazing adventurers. Travel is not only for the young. Sometimes it's wasted on the young.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
We think that maybe feminism isn't appropriate anymore, since Western women have really made enormous strides. But check out the rest of the world if you'd like to not be able to sleep tonight.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
~ Ellen Glasgow
women love with their imagination and men with their senses.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
~ Ellen Glasgow
You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.
~ Ellen Goodman
I don't think women outlive men, Doctor. It only seems longer.
~ Erma Bombeck
Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.
~ Evan Davis
If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.
~ Evangeline Lilly
What makes women happy? Nothing, for more than ten minutes at a time, so stop worrying.
~ Fay Weldon
Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.
~ Francois Ozon
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women.
~ Frank Sinatra
At certain times, men regard poetry merely as a bright flame, but to women it was, and always will be, a warm fire.
~ Franz Grillparzer
I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.
~ Fred Allen
For some reason, the women in my life have always been extremely powerful. I've learned a great deal from that. I've learned that we're all women when we're complete and we're all men.
~ Frederick Lenz