# Quote — Steve Jones, Y: The Descent Of Men

> Freud's antique notion of women as diminished men is quite wrong. Biology instead reveals every man's battle to escape the woman within.

- Author: [Steve Jones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-jones.md)
- Book: [Y: The Descent Of Men](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-jones/y-the-descent-of-men.md)
- Page: 47
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)#Y:_The_Descent_of_Men_(2003)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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