Quotes About Introspection

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

None of us whether Men or Women but have so good an Opinion of our own Conduct as to believe we are fit, if not to direct others, at least to govern our selves.

I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

... women are more quiet. They don't feel called to mount a barrel and harangue by the hour every time they imagine they have produced an idea.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?