Pathologies Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

I think the fallacy is to think that Women's Liberation meant that men and women would become interchangeable. That has not happened, and most…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping,…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

We reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters…

— Christina Hoff Sommers