We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.

The only useful answer to the question 'Who is smarter, a man or a woman?' is, which man and which woman?

I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.

What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.

All parents want their offspring to be exemplars of virtue and achievement and happiness. But most of all, we want desperately for you to be safe - safe from disease and violence and self-destruction.

We will have equality when a female schlemiel moves ahead as fast as a male schlemiel.