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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

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.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.