Farhan Akhtar Quotes

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

I've only written two novels, neither of them published, where the book is dominated by a male point of view; in the 'Onyx Court' series, it's split roughly 50/50.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house, just to understand at least a little bit about what makes a woman tick - not that I can certainly figure that out, because I can't.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

There have been articles saying that all women need to read my book. I ask, why not all men? In fact, that would be even more valuable because we women want to sit down with men and tell them - this is how we feel, this is what we go through.

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

I never know where women are coming from.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.

I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than women. With a woman, everything is either this or that, black or white. But a man can see shades of gray. That's what I call being sensitive.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

There is a sense that women are more anchored than men in our society.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

Having a female point of view in the room - when you get into a discussion about behavior - who would say what and how they would interact with one another. In certain situations, women are going to have a different opinion on that than men. It made for a really balanced conversation in the room.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.