Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image.

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.

Women are more meticulous and methodical. But on the other hand, I feel if you go on a male-dominated set, which is mostly any other set, you don't ask how it was to be on a male-dominated set.

Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion.

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

As long as male behavior is taken to be the norm, there can be no serious questioning of male traits and behavior. A norm is by definition a standard for judging; it is not itself subject to judgment.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

Obviously I want to support women, and I believe in women, and I think we should support each other, but we shouldn't go into extremes. Some women can get very aggressive towards men, but we need men and love men, so keeping the right balance is the most important thing.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.