Amy Poehler Quotes

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

I have a lot of girl friends who are very adept at making friends, and guys are just not.

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

It has been my experience that women tell more intimate details to their friends than men do. Men may brag more, but women will talk the nitty-gritty and share the experience more.

I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.

A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.

Women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much.

I've always gotten along with guys better.

Seriously, women have a level of outward compassion that a lot of men don't necessarily have. Guys feel as deeply as women, but they don't share it as much. Learning how to do that more has been a valuable add.

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape.

Men are easier to get on with than women. They tend not to make emotional demands on you.

I grew up in a family where you were allowed to say anything; you were allowed to show weakness... I have no problems talking about anything, basically. But at the same time, I know I'm different than a woman.

I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

For women, detailed conversation is our lifeblood, while for men it's just not as critical.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

In the U.S., women smile more than men. In the U.K., there's no difference between men and women.

When men sit around and talk, they are very competitive. One person will tell an anecdote and the next person will try to top that. When you get six women together, they share a lot more. They will be far more interested in what the other person has to say. The conservation is more interactive and less about individually showing off.