Quotes by Christina Hoff Sommers

“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.”

“A Feminist Uses Statistics Like a Fish Uses a Bicycle.”

“Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, How many of you are feminists? Very few will raise their hands because young women dont want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.”

Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned noble lie ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminisms misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men.

I call [fourth-wave feminism] fainting–couch feminism, a la the delicate Victorian ladies who retreated to an elegant chaise when overcome with emotion. As an equality feminist from the 1970s, I am dismayed by this new craze. Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can’t cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism—and for women.

Here are young women with more opportunities, more liberties than almost any women in history and at that moment we tell them they’re short-changed silenced victims of a patriarchy? It’s defeatist and demoralising.

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.

Truth is on the side of compassion.

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isnt it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? Theyre not self-determining human beings?

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.