Joyce Brothers Quotes

The E-S theory does not stereotype. Rather, it seeks to explain why individuals are typical or atypical for their sex.

There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it?

My stress on the truth in sexual stereotypes and on the biologic basis of sex differences is sure to cause controversy.

I'll get kicked around for saying it, but men and women are just different. They're not equal. The same way that you and I are not equal.

The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot.

Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are different from other girls. Calling a book 'for boys' or 'for girls' is well-meaning, but to me, not terribly helpful.

The difference between people are really great in terms of the level of their aspirations.

No two floods are alike.

That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less.

You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

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

The first thing that strikes the careless observer is that women are unlike men. They are 'the opposite sex' - (though why 'opposite' I do not know; what is the 'neighbouring sex'?).

The studies about differences between the sexes that you see kind of get propped up in the media are more often than not denigrating women in some way, saying that women really don't have any spatial understanding, and that's why they can't park.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

I think, men and women are different. We have different challenges.

I think people are as individual as snowflakes, they kinda look alike but no two are the exactly the same, and all classification is the root of prejudice.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

There's going to be biological differences between the genders. There's going to be biological differences between two women or two men. There's biological differences between all of us. My concern is, why are we so concerned about it? Why are we so worried about it? Why, whenever a study comes out about men do this one way and women do this one way, or men's brains and women's brains - why are we so interested in that? You know, what makes us so fascinated by differences between the sexes? And I think more often than not that interest is deeply embedded in sexism.