“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque
“In my experience, women underestimate the effect that their happiness has on the men in their lives.”
Source: The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
“Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored neatly in the toolbox.”
Source: The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
“Instead of ignoring our differences, we need to accept and transcend them.”
Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“We're the expendable half of the species, ladies. We're designed to take down the bad guys, to save the children. We're your weapons, your attack dogs. We're ready to i.e. taking down the threats against you. There isn't much call for this in the twenty-first century, but this is our baggage. We're here to solve your problems, and when you have no need for our upper-body strength, raw courage, or foolish daring, we can be at a loss.”
Source: The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
“Men loathe the feeling of failing at the relationship.”
Source: The Woman's Guide to How Men Think: Love, Commitment, and the Male Mind
“the hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.”
Source: The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism
“God simply revealed the self-centered core that began to motivate each of them: The woman would continue to try to draw life and nurturing from a man who was not capable of filling these deep needs—never was and never will be. And the man would be forever trying to rule over the woman, either aggressively or passively trying to keep her quiet about his inadequacy to fill her needs.”
Source: Families Where Grace Is in Place
“Understanding life takes time, as does the awakening to the wings we’ve always had to fly.”
Source: Rhythm Of The Heart
“Men need a purpose?' She sighed, exasperated.
'Can’t you understand women are the same? We crave our own goals and our own accomplishments, our own sisterhood as well. And there are precious few places we can find it, in a world ruled by the opposite sex. Everywhere else we are governed by men’s rules, live at the mercy of male whims. But here, in this one tiny corner of the world, we are free to be our best and truest selves. Spindle Cove is ours, Bram. I will fight to my last breath before I let you destroy it. Women’s needs are important, too.”
Source: A Night to Surrender