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Quotes About Insight

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
~ Rupert Brooke
All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.
~ Gertrude Atherton
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
~ Henry James
"Don't be stupid!" is excellent advice.
~ Amy Dickinson
One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering
~ Ben Jonson
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.
~ Bram Stoker
Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.
~ Vanessa Bayer
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
~ Denene Millner
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
You can't learn something about all women. Sometimes I feel that the older I get, the less of a grip I've got on it.
~ Jamie Hince
As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat.
~ P. N. Elrod
Women can instantly see through each other, and it's surprising how little they observe that's pleasant.
~ Wilson Mizner
That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.
~ Candace Bushnell
Guys behave like they're naive, but they're not stupid. They know what's going on.
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will.
~ Robin Williams
Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
~ Peter Straub
General notions are generally wrong.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
I think men should go see Beaches too. I think they'll understand women better.
~ Garry Marshall
I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.
~ Mitch Glazer
I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.
~ Ronan Farrow
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
~ Doris Lessing