Judy Sheindlin Quotes

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

I don't think I could keep my position as a well-standing man in the world if I thought there were roles for men and women.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.

[Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just leave boys and girls alone they're gonna grow up and be identical. They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they find things interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.