Allison Pearson Quotes

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

Men sometimes do not understand the sexual desires and processes of women.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

Women are often expected to be more amiable or more pleasing or more submissive than men generally.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Most men are not that evolved.

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there's no doubt about that. We just don't like to think about it. Certainly the men don't like to think about it.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

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.

I even felt like I liked guys better than women - that men were relevant and women weren't. It took me a while to realize I'd been socialized to have a slighting view of my own gender.

No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

I don't think men try to make women be like them, but I think women try to make men be like them, a lot.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.