Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
Christina Hoff SommersIn reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.
Christina Hoff SommersWe reject creationism because there is no evidence to support it. By contrast, the notion that biology is at least partially the basis of gender is an empirically supportable, and even well-supported, proposition. The gender scholars reject it on ideological, not evidentiary, grounds.
Christina Hoff SommersToy 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.
Christina Hoff SommersNow 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 don't 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.
Christina Hoff Sommers