Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

• 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.

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

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  Tags in Group, Superior, Think

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

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  Tags in Today, Teaching

• Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

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  Tags in Powerful, Student

•  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.

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  Tags in People, Become, Public

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

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  Tags in Successful, Human, Reality

• 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.

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  Tags in Parents, Different, Friends

• 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.

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  Tags in Healthy, Normal, Attribute

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

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Against, Politically

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

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Must, Schools

• 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.

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  Tags in Interested, Both, Profits

• 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.

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  Tags in Little, Different, Understand

• 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.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Change, Solution, Choice

• 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.

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  Tags in Women, Happen, Think

• 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.

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  Tags in True, Finished, Struggling

Christina Hoff Sommers (15)

Birth:	1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Professor

About

Christina Marie Hoff Sommers was born in Petaluma, California. She is an American author, feminist and former philosophy professor known for her writings about feminism in contemporary American culture. Sommers is known for her criticisms of contemporary feminism, arguing that modern feminist thought often contains an "irrational hostility to men" and possesses an "inability to take seriously the possibility that the sexes are equal but different". Sommers's most notable books are Who Stole Feminism? and The War Against Boys, both of which are critical discussions of contemporary feminism. He earned a BA at New York University in 1971, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a PhD in philosophy from Brandeis University in 1979.

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