Quotes About Insight

I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population and gave birth to the whole world. Without them the rest [of the world] are not getting to know the whole story.

I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.

Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

I know about women. I know that they're not men.

I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.

Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.

What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind.... while her eyes are brimming with tears.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

The true wealth of a community is measured by how carefully it listens to its women and how sincerely it values their wisdom. Empowering women empowers us all.

We all, as women, need to continue to change our gaze from how we are seen to how we are seeing.

Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male.

I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.

I'm like a sponge: I like to listen.