“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

“It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.”

Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist

“The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

“She smiled. “I wouldn’t mind. Is that a difference between men and women or between you and me?”
“I think it’s a difference between you and merely sane people.””

Joe Haldeman book Forever Peace

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

“There is very little difference between men and women in space.”

Helen Sharman (1963) British chemist who became the first Briton in space

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“That's the difference between girls and women: Girls find men fascinating. Women know better.”

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

“Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.”

George Bernard Shaw Major Barbara

“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author