“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
“Men are not listeners . . . They hear what they expect to hear, or want to hear, or are certain they will hear, and women, being supple creatures trained to please, have often told them what we women knew would satisfy them. [p. 167]”
“If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?”
“The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear.”
“I so want to meet the other women. I hear their voices, their weeping. Maybe they can explain to me why we're here. Or maybe I don't want to know.”
“If you're going to say what you want to say, you're going to hear what you don't want to hear.”