Chad Harbach Quotes

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

Having 'best friends' is - at least for me - as outdated and small-minded a concept as the idea of 'Sunday best clothes.'

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school, so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.

Like any other all-American boy, I wanted to be just thought of as popular, be well-liked, and meet a lot of cute girls.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, Why limit yourselves?

If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.

High school popularity is so fickle.

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

We came here to pick up chicks, not talk about dicks.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

I always say there's no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They're predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls.

That woman was sexy. . . . Out of your league? Son, let women figure out why they won't screw you. Don't do it for them.

In the end there is nothing more unattractive to men than radical feminism.

Many women, particularly young women, have claimed the right to use the most explicit sex terms, including extremely vulgar ones, in public as well as private. But it is men, far more than women, who have been liberated by this change. For now that women use these terms, men no longer need to watch their own language in the presence of women. But is this a gain for women?

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

I feel like gender lines are changing. A couple of years ago, it wasn't nearly as OK for guys to like girly-sounding music. But all of a sudden a lot of my guys friends who would like have been really disdainful of female singers are way more accepting.

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.

Holly is the fourth-prettiest girl in the class, but the top 3 all have boyfriends. So a lot of guys like me are doing everything they can to get in good with her.

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.

It is the marketplace that calls most clearly for men to be softer, more narcissistic and receptive, and the new man is the result.

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.