Philippa Gregory Quotes

I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn't have any idea what was going on in anybody else's mind.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

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.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.

I think his deepest quality is empathy.

With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

Life works best when we think of people as people.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

Look at us human beings: it's so much easier to be right than to love.

For me, storytelling is all about how we learn about each other. I'm so curious about people, what makes them tick, why they are who they are, and how we all relate to each other, despite the fact that we may not think that we do.

If you're a smart guy, you should really try to find out what women are thinking. I mean, we are 51 percent of the population.

I think understanding or comprehension is probably the strongest emotion that you feel, or at least some kind of empathy.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.