68 Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.

It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

I'm concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.