“We do tend to overreact when we feel threatened. Men, I mean.”

“There's much we can all do for men, including helping them feel wanted without their having to do anything life threatening. Perhaps women always knew this instinctively, which is why we tend to flatter our men and laugh at all their jokes, letting them think they're funnier than women.”

“Nervous people tend to overreact.”

“The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.”

“I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures.""And we're not?""Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending. Men tend to break.”

“In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.”