In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
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. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
I don’t think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
You have to be literate in today’s world. We’re not going to get away with not teaching boys to read. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
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. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
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. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
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. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children. Christina Hoff Sommers Read Quote
