Jessica Valenti 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'?).

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

Boys and girls are not the same.

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

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

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 think there is a major difference between actors and actresses. All of the men I've worked with have been really difficult, whereas the women have always been extremely cooperative. I began thinking about that, and I think it comes down to a question of comfort with vanity.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

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

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

There are certain things women are better at than men.

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.

I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

It would need more than the 19th Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

It is time to recognize the variability of females, just as we do males.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

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?

Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.

Endless books claim that the brains of men and women are wired differently. They have titles such as 'Why Men Don't Iron' and set out to convince us that women are somehow biologically suited to getting the creases out of clothes while men peruse maps.

I'd never write off a whole sex.