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Quotes About Perspective

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.
~ Unknown
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women would rather be right than reasonable.
~ Ogden Nash
Men get laid, but women get screwed.
~ Quentin Crisp
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
~ William Faulkner
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
~ Aldous Huxley
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.
~ Christopher Morley
What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.
~ Unknown
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
~ Rebecca West
When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
~ Unknown
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
~ Unknown
Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.
~ Golda Meir
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
~ Ann Oakley
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
~ Anatole France
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree
~ Oscar Wilde
Women are as old as they feel - and men are old when they lose their feelings.
~ Mae West
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Women are happier in the love they inspire than in that which they feel; men are just the contrary.
~ Unknown
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
Men play the game; women know the score.
~ Unknown
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.
~ Bill Cosby
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
~ Mark Twain
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.
~ Alexandre Dumas père