Quotes from Anne Moir

The pursuit of power is overwhelmingly and universally a male trait. To rise in the hierarchy, men are much more prepare than women to make sacrifices of their own time, pleasure, relocations health, safety, or emotions.

High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation.

School-age boys had begun to define their life aims in terms of the occupations, and the prestige of the occupations, that lay ahead. They were asking, 'What is my work to be?' while the girls were wondering, 'Who will my husband be?

Boys, overwhelmingly, go into jobs with a mechanical or theoretical bias, girls into jobs which, for the most part, involve some form of human interaction, like catering, social, or secretarial work, or teaching.

The attractiveness of a man usually depends predominantly upon his skills and prowess rather than upon his physical appearance.

When men try to be romantic they do it less by words than through things. Not for nothing are chocolates and jewelry described as 'tokens' of affection. Not for nothing does he 'say it with flowers'- he cannot say it with words. The male language of love is doing.