John Gray Quotes

Women are good listeners, but it's a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there's something specific you want him to do.

Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that's okay.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

There is no such thing as low maintenance or high maintenance, just a bunch of women hoping for a capable mechanic.

What women need to understand is that men don't communicate. It's not intentional or on purpose. We're just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Life is not about making dough or how many movies you can make in a year. It's about finding someone that you can share things with.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Men want to make women happy.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Nine times out of 10, women don't want to fix a problem, they just want to be understood. I'll never get that.

My family keeps me sane. I try to talk to my mum every other day. After I get off the phone, I have a renewed sense of clarity, so I guess a problem shared is a problem lost. It's important to me to keep them close.

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

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

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.

Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.