# Quote — Steve Stewart Williams, A Billion Years of Sex Differences

> Some differences may never be completely eradicated – not, at any rate, without draconian interventions that limit people’s freedom and potentially make them miserable. Such interventions may be modern-day equivalents of earlier efforts to force gay people to be straight or left-handers to use their right hands: a progressive form of conversion therapy.

- Author: [Steve Stewart Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams.md)
- Book: [A Billion Years of Sex Differences](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steve_Stewart-Williams#A_Billion_Years_of_Sex_Differences:_How_Evolution_Shaped_the_Minds_of_Men_and_Women_(2026)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/some-differences-may

## More from this book

> In some frog species, females fake their own deaths to escape unwanted male attention; males, on the other hand, never fake theirs to escape female attention.

p. 139 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/in-some-frog.md)

> We often view sexual victimization and partner abuse as women’s problems, rather than more-women-than-men problems. In doing so, however, we once again treat a statistical sex difference as a Mars-and-Venus difference. Ironically, the tendency to polarize sex differences in this domain is particularly common among gender-role progressives, who usually downplay female-male differences.

p. 249 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/we-often-view.md)

> I once spotted an article in The Daily Mail with the rather striking headline: “How did I raise such a girly girl? Feminist mother cringes at her three-year-old daughter’s love of princesses, frills and pink – and wishes she was into toy cars instead.” I remember thinking how strange it is that people who wish their daughters were less girly, and more like boys, are viewed as pro-female, rather than anti.

p. 253 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-stewart-williams/a-billion-years-of-sex-differences/i-once-spotted.md)