Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Quotes

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

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

I don't buy this premise that the number of minifigures needs to be an equal amount to be gender neutral. Nobody makes artistic products like that; nobody makes a movie and says there has to be equal numbers of men and women.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.

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.

I'm not telling women to be like men. I'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.

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

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.

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

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

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

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.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

I love women in all their different incarnations. My friends are practically all women. They are much more intelligent than men.

The one thing that men and women have in common - they both like the company of men.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.

Men and women, women and men. It will never work.

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!