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Top 30 Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes (2025 Update)

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.”

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

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “I’m concerned that boys have become politically incorrect, that we are a society in the process of turning against its male children.”

3. “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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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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 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.”

4. “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 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

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “You have to be literate in today’s world. We’re not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.”

6. “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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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “The current plight of boys and young men is, in fact, a women’s issue. Those boys are our sons; they are the people with whom our daughters will build a future. If our boys are in trouble, so are we all. In the war against boys, as in all wars, the first casualty is truth.”

7. “The current plight of boys and young men is, in fact, a women’s issue. Those boys are our sons; they are the people with whom our daughters will build a future. If our boys are in trouble, so are we all. In the war against boys, as in all wars, the first casualty is truth.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.”

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

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Truth is on the side of compassion.”

9. “Truth is on the side of compassion.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.”

12. “As our schools become more feelings centered, risk averse, competition-free, and sedentary, they move further and further from the characteristic sensibilities of boys.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.”

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

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn’t it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most... women are not free? They’re not self-determining human beings?”

16. “Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn’t it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most... women are not free? They’re not self-determining human beings?”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

17. “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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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Teachers as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades – and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better and are more amenable to classroom routines than boys.”

18. “Teachers as early as kindergarten factor good behavior into grades – and girls, as a rule, comport themselves far better and are more amenable to classroom routines than boys.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Capturing media attention and being credible are distinct phenomena.”

20. “Capturing media attention and being credible are distinct phenomena.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race.”

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

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Boys today bear the burden of several powerful cultural trends: a therapeutic approach to education that valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk, zero-tolerance policies that punish normal antics of young males, and a gender equity movement that views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.”

22. “Boys today bear the burden of several powerful cultural trends: a therapeutic approach to education that valorizes feelings and denigrates competition and risk, zero-tolerance policies that punish normal antics of young males, and a gender equity movement that views masculinity as predatory. Natural male exuberance is no longer tolerated.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “The vast majority of American boys and girls are psychologically healthy. On the other hand, there is strong evidence that they are morally and academically undernourished.”

23. “The vast majority of American boys and girls are psychologically healthy. On the other hand, there is strong evidence that they are morally and academically undernourished.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “It has never been shown that “high self-esteem” is a good trait for students to possess. Meanwhile, researchers have uncovered a worrisome correlation between inflated self-esteem and juvenile delinquency. As Brad Bushman, an Iowa State University psychologist, explains, “If kids develop unrealistic opinions of themselves and those views are rejected by others, the kids are potentially dangerous.”

25. “It has never been shown that “high self-esteem” is a good trait for students to possess. Meanwhile, researchers have uncovered a worrisome correlation between inflated self-esteem and juvenile delinquency. As Brad Bushman, an Iowa State University psychologist, explains, “If kids develop unrealistic opinions of themselves and those views are rejected by others, the kids are potentially dangerous.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things – cars, rockets, or trucks.”

26. “If asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least one person, while males nearly always draw things – cars, rockets, or trucks.”

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Children need to be moral more than they need to be in touch with their feelings. They need to be well educated more than they need classroom self-esteem exercises and support groups. Nor are they improved by having their femininity or masculinity “reinvented.” Emotional fixes are not the answer. Genuine self-esteem comes with pride in achievement, which is the fruit of disciplined effort.”

27. “Children need to be moral more than they need to be in touch with their feelings. They need to be well educated more than they need classroom self-esteem exercises and support groups. Nor are they improved by having their femininity or masculinity “reinvented.” Emotional fixes are not the answer. Genuine self-esteem comes with pride in achievement, which is the fruit of disciplined effort.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “Genuine self-esteem comes with pride in achievement, which is the fruit of disciplined effort.”

28. “Genuine self-esteem comes with pride in achievement, which is the fruit of disciplined effort.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.”

29. “But what is hard to understand is why the math and science gap launched a massive movement on behalf of girls, and yet a much larger gap in reading, writing, and school engagement created no comparable effort for boys.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “But being a boy is not a social disease.”

30. “But being a boy is not a social disease.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “I don’t think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.”

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

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Christina Hoff Sommers Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

— Christina Hoff Sommers

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