Elizabeth Berg Quotes

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

The relative positions assumed by men and women were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence.

Men always like what the ladies like.

Men and women study things differently, and it's not because of our chromosomes. It's a product of our cultural conditioning.

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most men and women would not want it to happen.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.