Women After All Quotes

“Empowering women is the next step in human evolution, and as the uniquely endowed creatures we are, we can choose to help bring it about.”
― Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

“The black widow spider and the praying mantis have found a way to have their males and eat them, too.”
― Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy

“There is a birth defect that is surprisingly common, due to a change in a key pair of
chromosomes. In the normal condition the two look the same, but in this disorder one is
shrunken beyond recognition. The result is shortened life span, higher mortality at all
ages, an inability to reproduce, premature hair loss, and brain defects variously resulting in
attention deficit, hyperactivity, conduct disorder, hypersexuality, and an enormous excess
of both outward and self-directed aggression. The main physiological mechanism is
androgen poisoning, although there may be others. I call it the X-chromosome deficiency
syndrome, and a stunning 49 percent of the human species is affected.
It is also called maleness.”
― Melvin Konner, Women After All: Sex, Evolution, and the End of Male Supremacy