Jon Scieszka Quotes

Boys and girls are not the same.

Physical, emotional, psychological and social differences [between the sexes] exist and dare not be disregarded.

There is no longer a doubt that women are just as competent as men. Gender differences are guided by nurture, as society treats boys and girls differently from an early age.

There are those who believe that the existence of gender differences at very early ages is evidence that these differences are biological or generic in origin.

I don't think anyone is saying that we should be treating boys and girls exactly the same and that we should try to eliminate all differences. What the psychologists who do this work are saying is we should be aware of it and careful about it, especially if we think it could be limiting choices.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, he's a little bit cheeky and mischievous. If a girl's naughty, she's trouble.

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes.

I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a macho culture right from the start of childhood. And if you have never learned to treat girls and women respectfully, you will never be able to act differently later on than the men in your culture, and in your family. That's fact.

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it would actually benefit both them and society if - to quote Professor Higgins - a woman could be more like a man.

In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl.'

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.

We are still vulnerable to gender-targeted marketing no matter how carefully we edit our children's bookshelves.

In a war, no matter the outcome of a certain skirmish or battle, the winner is the party whose attitudes, behaviors and preoccupations come to dominate the postwar landscape. By this measure, the outcome of the gender wars, if wars they were, is clear: women won.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

I think we're struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.