George Gilder Quotes

To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.

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

Boys and girls are not the same.

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it's socialization, that we're socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.

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.

Men and women are different: we have different tendencies, skills, and behaviors. This should be accepted and fostered, not demonized. Because the end result is simply more effeminate men and more masculine women. Who wants that?

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

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

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

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

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.

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.

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. 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.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.