Simon Baron-Cohen Quotes

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

Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.

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.

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

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

Women are more difficult to handle than men. It's their minds.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

I find that men are far more vain than women.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

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.

That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Men are awesome, but they're pretty easy to figure out; women are way more complicated, and way more interesting.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.

I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

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

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.