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When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

— Madeleine Albright

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the line between what's perceived as assertiveness or aggressiveness almost certainly shifts with an interrupter's gender.

— Deborah Tannen

Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.

— Harry Harlow

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

— Emily Ratajkowski

When a man tells a woman there is no chance of a formal, committed, long-term relationship, the only self-respecting response is to take him at his word and move on.

— Lynn Coady

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.

— John Gray

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

— Malcolm de Chazal

✗Opposing Perspectives

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

— Claude Chabrol

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

— George Jean Nathan

When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people kook; then, if they like what they see, they listen.

— Pauline Frederick