68 Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it – not necessarily European-style socialism. It’ll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

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.

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.

Teachers as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades – and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better and are more amenable to classroom routines than boys.

The vast majority of American boys and girls are psychologically healthy. On the other hand, there is strong evidence that they are morally and academically undernourished.

If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things – cars, rockets, or trucks.

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

But being a boy is not a social disease.

Children need to be moral more than they need to be in touch with their feelings. They need to be well educated more than they need classroom self-esteem exercises and support groups. Nor are they improved by having their femininity or masculinity “reinvented.” Emotional fixes are not the answer. Genuine self-esteem comes with pride in achievement, which is the fruit of disciplined effort.