Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway.

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

A lot of people in Islamic countries are taking it as a personal offense when people are talking about the violence against women in their culture.

I feel, in our culture, the girl with any sort of power is called 'difficult' or various words that are demeaning just because she has a voice, has confidence, and stands for her rights. It is sad, but it is the truth of our country.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

Look at history; all the interesting women were deeply flawed.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

I've never seen a world where only men were responsible for the violence, and the women were innocent. They go together. Men and women are a violent mixture.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

The women executives in the film industry have the power to say, 'No,' but few of them have the power to say, 'Yes.'

The image of Ireland is projected as a male image in the acting world, similar to the way that the word of Ireland is male dominated.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

I'm far from immune to the American, perhaps historically male, prejudice toward practical and physical competence; I hope I've also considered that prejudice enough to have some distance from it.

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.