Steve Harvey Discusses His New Book: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
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Comedian Steve Harvey admits that he’s no relationship guru, though his new book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like Man, suggests otherwise. Currently on The New York Times
Best Sellers list, the book is an open dialogue about relationships,
love and intimacy — all from a man’s point of view. We sat down with
Harvey as he broke down how to think like a man.
Why the book speaks to women:
“It’s a book that’s written from a real standpoint. I wrote the book
for one reason, and that was to empower women. I have a segment on my
show called the Strawberry Letter and 98 percent of the women that
write in are woman and 98 percent of those letters are about
relationships. Now, I’m not a relationship expert by any stretch of the
imagination. I’ve been married enough times to prove that I’m not the
relationship guru. But I am an expert on manhood. I know all the
principles of manhood. Now, whether I act them every day that’s another
thing. But I know all of them and I’ve turned out to be a pretty decent
guy.”
Why women shouldn’t listen to other women’s advice about men:
“The problem that women have is that you keep talking to each other
about your man. Y’all don’t know nothing about the man you got, so how
are you going to turn around and help the one she got?”
Why men are simple:
“I really could’ve wrote this book in 30 pages, it don’t take much to
describe us. But women don’t know that. You keep applying the way you
think about love, commitment [and] intimacy, and you apply it to your
man. We don’t think about it like you do. I talked to all of my friends
— celebrities, truck drivers, people I went to college with, people I
was on the assembly line with when I worked at Ford, my father — it’s
just regular men and how we think about [love] is the same. I don’t
care if you’re black, white, your man is Jewish, Gentile, it doesn’t
matter. He’s a man, he thinks like me. He may take you to different
places; some go to the opera, some go to the jazz club, others go to
plays, but we think the exact same. What I put in the book was real
information. And I’m dead on point.” –jh
