May Sarton Quotes
I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve.
Topics
Thinking
Gender Differences, Gender-Based Differences
Touching
Communication Differences
Communication Styles
Emotional Exhaustion
Emotional Labor
Emotional Understanding
Empathy Gap
Female Relationships
Gender Dynamics
Interpersonal Relationships
Listening Skills
Nervous Tension
Social Dynamics
Citations
Sarton, May. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing. W. W. Norton & Company, 1965, p. 154.
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May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American poet, novelist and memoirist. Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.