"I got the sense that he was not getting a lot of phone calls from women asking him out on dates."

This may also help to account for the support he still gets from women.

Rule remembered the mail she got from women who read the book.

"I got a lot of reaction from women after the movie came out," she said.

I like getting it from young women, especially if they're relatively new to the experience.

My wife gets a lot of negative feedback from other women.

We're getting calls all the time from women who wonder how it happened.

"Only a certain kind of person can reach him," she says, "but you should see the looks he gets from women."

"I've gotten a lot of phone calls from women who want the same hat," she said.

This enabled him to get a wider support from women and old age people.