"I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men"
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The subtext, though, is where the cultural baggage sits. By calling women “more intuitive than men,” she taps a long-running gender narrative that flatters women while quietly cordoning them off: women get emotional intelligence; men get rational authority. It’s a compliment with a cost. “Innate ability” suggests biology, not social training, even though the very skill she’s describing - reading moods, anticipating needs, calibrating responses - is something women are often coached into from childhood and required to perform in adulthood. What sounds like empowerment can also read as a defense mechanism against being dismissed: if the world doesn’t credit women with power, at least it can credit them with perception.
Her most telling qualifier is “with people that they truly love.” Intuition here isn’t generalized wisdom; it’s relational labor, activated by attachment. That narrows the claim to the domestic and romantic sphere, the terrain actresses are frequently asked to “speak for” in interviews. The intent feels less like an argument about gender and more like a nudge: stop second-guessing yourself when your gut is trying to tell you something. The cultural ripple is that it reinforces the idea that women’s insight is real, but only legitimate when it’s tender, private, and emotionally motivated.
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MacDowell, Andie. (2026, January 16). I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-women-have-an-innate-ability-to-be-136193/
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MacDowell, Andie. "I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-women-have-an-innate-ability-to-be-136193/.
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"I think women have an innate ability to be intuitive with people that they truly love, but they have to trust that inner voice, and I think it is there. I think we are more intuitive than men." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-women-have-an-innate-ability-to-be-136193/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.










