Quotes from Christina Hoff Sommers

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

Hillary Clinton appears to believe in a form of stoicism - which is a tried and true life philosophy.

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

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

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

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 society that's failing to understand the distinction.

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 country.

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 worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

Truth is on the side of compassion.

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 doubles profits.

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 of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

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 of what is right in the world.

Capturing media attention and being credible are distinct phenomena.

Teachers as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades—and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better and are more amenable to classroom routines than boys.

When young women say no to feminism, feminists don't accept that no means no.

Most little girls don't want to play with trucks, as almost any parent can attest. Including me: when my son gave his daughter Eliza a toy train, she placed it in a baby carriage and covered it with a blanket so it could get some sleep.

Feminist Gloria Steinem has called research on sex differences "anti-American." She says, "It is what is keeping us down." According to Gloria Allred, such research simply should not be done. "This is harmful and dangerous to our daughters' lives, to our mothers' lives, and I am very angry about it." Feminist critics have a term for neurologists who study sex differences: "neurosexists.

The grand experiment of the last half-century confirms, then, the paradox of egalitarian feminism: when women are liberated from the domestic sphere, granted their full Enlightenment freedoms to pursue happiness, and no longer sequestered in the role of nurturer, many, perhaps most, persist in giving priority to the domestic sphere.

Question: How many feminists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Feminist answer: That's not funny.

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 harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

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 and women would not want it to happen.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Even the most independent and spirited young women can become humorless, self-absorbed, and fearful. It's a terrible preparation for life.