Christina Hoff Sommers Quotes

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.

Christina Hoff Sommers

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• 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.

  

  Christina Hoff Sommers
  • Men
  • Women