Top 15 Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

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

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.