Rich Froning Jr. Quotes

Men don't quite know how to read women if they're not used to seeing them in a business environment.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

The gentle and insinuating manners of the female sex tend to soften the roughness of the other sex.

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.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

I think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.

While it would be as wrong of me to attribute these traits to women at the exclusion of men as it would be for a man to do the reverse, I think women can often be very strong team players and good communicators and collaborators.

I feel more comfortable doing films with groups of guys. It's a lot easier for me. There's a difference with women: you can't take them to dinner every night and go crazy.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

I understand men much better than most women I know.

I think women should have insight as to how men think. Just like men should have insight into how women think.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.

I have really good female friends. I've never bought the whole men-and-women-can't-be-friends thing. I think that's sort of nonsense.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.'

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

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