Renee Ellmers Quotes

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

Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is.

What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.

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

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out.

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

I am blunt sometimes; I am diplomatic sometimes; I am all things in between. Abrasive, you know, I guess it's in the eye of the beholder.

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.

And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.

Based on her experience with men, most assumed that when you talked to them about a problem or dilemma, they were expected to offer an opinion, even when all you wants was for them to listen.

Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.

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.

Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

I'm not the greatest communicator. I kind of internalize a lot.

Why do all your friends talk like books?

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.