Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

I grew up in a time when many people believed that men and women should not always be treated equally.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

In the face of patriarchy, it is a brave act indeed for both men and women to embrace, rather than shame or attempt to eradicate, the feminine.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

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.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

The most important movement in the world is the feminist movement. If we can really figure out what's going on between men and women, the other problems will take care of themselves. I'm sure of it.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.

I think it is too hard for men to talk about gender. We have to let men talk about this... because we need men to talk about this if it is ever going to change.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for men, too.

Women are not by nature inferior to men...

It is better to be a male for one day than a female for ten

The emancipation of women will only be possible if the traditional world of men also changes.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.