Quotes About Perspective

Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

I don't know, maybe it's just timely, or maybe it's the fact that I live in a house with four women, but I just find my thoughts kind of skewing that direction at the moment.

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

If women envy men, we can now see that it's because of the privileges their anatomy confers and not the anatomy itself.

Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

There are certain things men will never understand about women. We'll never get it. And you're supposed to be nice to them. Because they can hurt you.

Women are just different. Their sensibilities are different.

Look, I grew up in, went to school in, and now live in the American South, and southern white women are interesting, complex and quirky, even the ones with racial anxieties.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

I don't think that an emphasis on the peculiar plight of black males at all suggests that others are not suffering, or that such attention suggests that black men and women feel sorry for themselves.

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

I don't claim to say, "All black women are like me," because they're not.

Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.

A lot of women have trouble with their mothers-in-law." Raphael's look was priceless. "My mother is an insane archangel.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

I've always liked women who are older. They seem to know who they are, and they've lived. They've got soul, and that's very attractive.

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters.