"Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly."
- Khaled Hosseini
"Sexual differentiation begins approximately six weeks after conception, when in male children the gonads are formed and begin to manufacture male hormone, which has a profound effect on the future dev..."
- Anthony Stevens
"There is more difference within the sexes than between them."
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls an..."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"Whether they regard themselves as pro- or antifeminist, most women want men to do more of the emotional work in relationships. And most men, even those who wholeheartedly support gender equality in th..."
- bell hooks
"The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclus..."
- Lori Ziganto
"Men most often know what they want, yet they are not always sure how they feel. Women most often know how they feel, yet they may not always know what they want."
- Ken Poirot
"Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're ..."
- Jim Butcher
"Women tend to communicate early and often about a problem. Men are more likely to view communication as a tool, and when they see it as the wrong tool for the job, they believe it should be stored nea..."
- Shawn T. Smith
"For every woman you know who has been given substandard treatment by her parents, used by her friend or boyfriend, abused by her husband, discriminated by her employers and ridiculed by society, I kno..."
- Sanjeev Himachali