Quotes About Conversation

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.

I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.

In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns -- Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

What is Thanksgiving without a nutty relative?

Appearing to pay attention when someone is speaking is one of the cornerstones of real social interaction.

Being listened to should be sufficiently gratifying in itself, whether or not the advice is followed.

He always said she was smart, but their conversations were a mined field in which at any moment she might make the wrong verbal move and find her ignorance exploding in her face.

I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there's nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

I say you hurt me. You say I scorned you. We say we care. It begins. The conversation begins.

In mixed company women practise a kind of visual shorthand that they later decode in detail in other women's company.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

I just think that we have more opportunity to have a bit more of that banter between each other. And, given that the two women are so different, there's really something to play with.

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

Women prefer speaking to talking.