Gender Differences in Communication Quotes

Much of my work over the years has developed the premise that women's styles of friendship and conversation aren't inherently better than men's, simply different.

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

Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be neurologically. Not that there's anything wrong with it. See, this is the thing. When you make the observation that women talk 18,000 more words a day than men, it's immediately taken as a criticism because it implies inequality. It implies that there's something wrong with women.

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

No man with any sense assumes that a woman's words mean to her exactly what they mean to him.

I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.