“In my experience, men who understand women seem to rarely want to have anything to do with them.”

“It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.”

“In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.”

“Women mediate between men in the nerve centers of complex societies, seen but rarely heard, stimulating production over which they have no control, becoming consumers of products they inspire but do not produce, and finally becoming “consumed”- petted, admired and seduced- by the men who produce them.”

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.”

“The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything”

“From my experience dealing with Sichuan [after the 2008 earthquake] I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.”

“In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)”

“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.”