"What Women Say That They Mean" Intro: by Julianna Rowe

 

" WHAT WOMEN SAY THAT THEY MEAN"

While these pieces center on women, the language of emotion isn’t gendered...only the way we’re taught to express it.

Women don’t always say things the way people expect them to. Not because they're confusing or because they are playing games. But because so much of what they feel doesn’t fit into one clean sentence. So it comes out softer, and sometimes sideways and sometimes wrapped in humor, or patience, or silence. And if you’re not really listening…you might miss it completely. Because when a woman says something, there’s often more behind it than just the words.

There’s what she’s thinking,and always what she is feeling, what she’s holding back, and what she’s hoping you understand without her having to explain it twice.

This isn’t about decoding women. It’s about finally hearing them. Because what women say…they mean.

Just not always in the way you expect.

“We don’t say more… we just say it differently.”