All Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes
- A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness. All
- We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much… Boy
- There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches--they're… Anti
- I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children. Become Politically
- Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a… Aggression
- Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. Academically
- I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. Academically
- In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. Ambitious
- Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it… Both
- We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys. Anti
- You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. Boy
- Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different… Any
- 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 the… Administrators
- I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. Advised
- 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 men… Fallacy
- I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care… Bad
- It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too… Awareness