““Is it different, then, for men and for women?”
“What isn’t, dearie?””

“It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds… at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.”

Gavin de Becker (1954) American engineer

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

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

“Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.”

Toni Morrison (1931–2019) American writer

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“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

“There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives—or at least more balanced lives.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

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

Candace Bushnell book One Fifth Avenue

“(Television) The brain is differently wired in men and women. (Sylvia) In men, the wires are loose.”

Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist