Gender Communication Quotes

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Men and women would be even more unhappy if they really understood one another.

A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be able to prevent disagreements from arising, but you stand a better chance of preventing them from spiraling out of control.

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.

Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves.

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.

I wouldn't say personally that I have problems communicating with men - though I'm not sure what the men would say.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.

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.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.

You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense

I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

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

For a woman, language spoken is an expression of what she is feeling. For a man, language spoken is an expression of what he is thinking. A woman says what is on her heart while a man says what is on his mind.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?