Thomasina Watts

“Anaxagoras’ belief that lying on the right side during sex would produce a boy was so influential that centuries later some French aristocrats had their left testicles amputated.”
― Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

“Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race”
― Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

“How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.”
― Matt Ridley, The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature