Simon Baron-Cohen Quotes

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

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life! That sort of thing. It's not a bit true! Some girls are businesslike and some aren't. Some men are sentimental and muddle-headed, others are clear-headed and logical. There are just different types of brains.

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

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

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

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

Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

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 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.

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

Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

Boys and girls are not the same.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

Gender and sex are about rules which we have invented, but we are animals; we belong to nature.

I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.