Quotes About Introspection

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Like most women, I remember my first drink in tender minutiae.

I've been used by women all my life, fortunately.

I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"

I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school.

Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

If everybody would just stop talking, my job would be a lot easier.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

It was not the house that grew dull, but I that grew dull in it. My wife was better than all women, and yet I could not feel it.

For men, it's necessary to push aside that marvelous ego that tells you that you are all knowing and capable, and see that you are not.

I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

The more women looke in their glasse, the lesse they looke to their house. [The more women look in their glass, the less they look to their house.]

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.