Louann Brizendine Quotes



Best 17 The Male Brain Quotes by Louann Brizendine

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“A boy’s public relationship with his p*nis is something that has made many mothers wince, including me.”

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“A man’s best chance for longevity is to sleep deeply, stay strong, avoid tobacco, and get married and stay married.”

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“Boys discover their place in the world by pushing all of their body’s physical limits, so it’s not just fighting but also being able to fart or burp the loudest or the longest that gives a boy bragging rights.”

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“Boys tease and reject other boys who like girls’ games and toys.”

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“By adulthood, most men and women have learned to behave in a gender-appropriate manner.”

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“By the time a boy is just three and a half, the greatest insult is being called a girl.”

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“By the time they’re six months old, baby girls are looking at faces longer and making eye contact with just about everyone. But baby boys are looking away from faces and breaking eye contact much more than girls.

There’s nothing wrong with David. His brain just doesn’t find eyes and faces as interesting as toy airplanes and other moving objects.”

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“He picks me flowers, tells me he loves me, and showers me with kisses and hugs. But when he gets the urge to do something, the rules we’ve taught him vanish from his mind.”

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“Many fathers who don’t have daily hands-on contact may fail to form the strong daddy brain circuits required for parent-child synchrony. The environment for eventually establishing such a close interaction may start before birth.

During the last months of my pregnancy, my son’s father would play a tapping game with him. His dad would tap tap tap on my belly, and he’d tap tap tap back — kicking seemingly with the same rhythm. The father-son relationship had begun.”

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“Much to the scientists’ surprise, the men, after seeing an emotional face for just one fifth of a second — so briefly that it was still unconscious — were more emotionally reactive than the women.

But it’s what happened to the men’s facial muscles next that helped me explain Neil’s guy face to Danielle. As the experiment proceeded, at 2.5 seconds, well into the range of conscious processing, the men’s facial muscles became less emotionally responsive than the women’s.

The researchers concluded that the men consciously — or at least semiconsciously — suppressed showing their emotions on their faces. Meanwhile, the women’s facial muscles became more emotionally responsive after 2.5 seconds.

According to the researchers, this suggests that men have trained themselves, perhaps since childhood, to automatically turn off or disguise facial emotions. The females’ expressions not only continued to mirror the emotion they were seeing on the face in the photo, but they automatically exaggerated it, from a grin to a big smile or from a subtle frown to a pout. They, too, had been practicing this since childhood.”

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“Researchers found that by the age of twenty-seven months, boys more often than girls will go behind their parents’ backs to take risks and break rules.”

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“Researchers have found that by the time a boy is seven months old, he can tell by his mother’s face when she’s angry or afraid.

But by the time he’s twelve months old, he’s built up an immunity to her expressions and can easily ignore them. For girls, the opposite happens.”

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“The five-to-one rule: giving each other five compliments for every one critical remark.”

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“The idea that the male is the default-model human still deeply pervades our culture. The male is considered simple; the female, complex.”

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“To a young male brain, the victory cry is everything.”

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“When brain areas aren’t used enough, they atrophy. Isolation is bad for the brain.”

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“When men live alone and become isolated — which they do more often than women — their daily routines can become repetitive habits that get deeply engraved into their brain circuits.

Soon, if someone disrupts their routine, they get irritated because their brain’s social-flexibility circuits are weakened from disuse.”

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