Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes

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

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.

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

Something that always fascinated me was the psychology and the psychology differences between men and women and how we relate to one another.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

Women and men just aren't that different. Oh, we're different in some intriguing ways, and it can be fun to band together for all-gal or all-guy projects. But when it comes to the tragic mess Christ came to heal, we're pretty much the same.

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.

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

Studies have been done showing that there really are gender differences, that women do bring more congeniality and compromise to the table.

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

Men are more likely to be introverted than women are, but it's really very slight. But the real difference I think is in how it plays out, how it relates to cultural stereotypes.

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

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.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.