Quotes About Perception

To be a man, apparently, was to lack the ability to be a woman.

Sometimes I meet someone, he rubs me the wrong way. Your mother meets the same person, she thinks he's peachy keen.

It was odd how often this happened, Ginger and Mimi retaining different slivers of family memory. It was almost as if the recollections had been split down the middle and doled out: you get this, I get that, so no one would be privy to it all.

Overcooked asparagus dripped off the rim of a platter like clocks in a Dalí painting. And

Men expected idiotic chatter from pretty women, so she had incorporated it into her routine.

Trevor was young, at least five years younger than she was. Between an older man and a younger woman, this would seem like nothing, but it was different this way around. She didn't kid herself. She knew what men were like. They'd go to bed with almost anyone female.

These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.

My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.

It is the darkness that makes the light visible, and not the other way around.

I have particularly acute hearing, but Gran had obviously forgotten this fact.

Maybe she'd spoken of me to him but I was positive my grandmother had never mentioned tall-dark-and-snooty. I'd have remembered.

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.

Thirty-three is not old." Dosana was all of twenty-two so Iris was not inclined to believe she knew what she was talking about. "Jesus was thirty three when he died." "But not of old age.

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

The events we live through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world who mean you harm. And sometimes, they're people you say they love you.

If you think you already know what you're looking at, you might not see what's really there.

A wise man is always a fool in the sight of those who know nothing about life.

The success of a man who dress slow like a woman is narrow.

The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.

However complicated you think it is, everything is always more complicated than that.

They say: only exceptional people can cross the borders. The truth is: anyone can cross, everyone has it in them. But only exceptional people can bear to look it in the eye.

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

Even a stone is not the same as any other stone. There is no shape to anything except the shape it has. Every name we give ourselves is wrong. Our dreams are more true than our waking.

That is how a man speaks. And that is why.