“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
“The moment you become aware of your automatic behaviours, judging and expecting another human being to live and behave within the stereotypical gender boxes, you cannot go back to being unconscious. This is when you know you are changing”
Source: The Story of Boxes, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Secret to Human Liberation, Peace and Happiness
“Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll. We were taught that the social construction of gender is the appropriate framework in which to understand these results [..] We give girls a fairly consistent message that girls are supposed to play with dolls and not with trucks. So when offered a choice girls will be more likely to play with dolls rather than trucks. But if a girl picks up a truck it's not a catastrophe. WIth boys the stakes are higher, we send boys a much stronger message what a boy is and is not supposed to do. Boys are not supposed to play with dolls. Boys get that message loud and clear.”
Source: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences