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Quotes About Perspective

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression. That's just how it's been.
~ Frederick Lenz
As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
~ Gao Xingjian
I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.
~ Geena Davis
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
~ George Bernard Shaw
One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
~ Gertrude Stein
... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.
~ Gloria Steinem
My men have become women, but the women men.
~ Herodotus
Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.
~ Howard W. Koch
Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.
~ Ian Shoales
All men are liars. All women are liars, too.
~ Ilona Andrews
Most of the things that I learn are from the women in my life.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
~ James Blunt
The fact is, I am in my third marriage and I do not believe in divorce. But I was half the problem, I guarantee you. More than half the problem. I couldn't negotiate with the other women.
~ James Brolin
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
No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.
~ James Thurber
Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise.
~ Jane Austen
I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.
~ Jason Segel
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
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.
~ Jessica Raine
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.
~ Jill Abramson
Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!
~ Jim Carrey
I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.
~ Jimmy Dean