Mismeasure of Woman Quotes

“In fact, in one major study of the factors in coronary heart disease, postmenopausal women with cholesterol levels higher than 295 had heart attack rates that were the same as or lower than”
― Carol Tavris, Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

“Unromantic explanations—such as the structure of work—are better predictors of how men and women will get along than are explanations based on male and female “nature.”
― Carol Tavris, Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex

“Women do not benefit from doctrinaire regulations of the one right way to be,”
― Carol Tavris, Mismeasure of Woman: Why Women are Not the Better Sex, the Inferior Sex, or the Opposite Sex