Susanna Hoffs Quotes

Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

Should men and women be equal in all things? Absolutely. But I'm old-fashioned in that I like the differences between the sexes. My male characters are neither Neanderthals nor Prince Charmings. They're flawed.

Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.

In Quebec, as women were getting more power, there were the men who agreed with that and the men who were afraid. I think most men are willing to share power with women, but there's fear. Every time you change something, there's a friction.

It might seem at first surprising that when I studied women and men talking at work, I found that women 'interrupted' each other more often than men did - when they were in all-women conversations.

With Fleetwood Mac, it's an amazing chemistry that we have on stage.

I think men are more adventurous in that they're more likely to take chances. Women play it safe. But now, maybe more of the women that see how it's working for the guys think, 'I can do that, too'. Maybe they'll pick male players, not necessarily female players; it's just whatever that match is that works for that player.

I find men odd. I don't really understand men. I kind of feel like I understand women better than I do men, really.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

The original lineup, we got on stage, we had a great chemistry, it was awesome, and then when we left the stage, we never talked to each other. There's a lot of bands that way. Who cares? What's wrong with it?

Every conversation we have as a band is about gender in some way, and it's been like that from the beginning.

Being in a band with guys didn't feel like what I should be doing.

It's a tough thing to work with two different genders. You've gotta learn how to talk to women and talk to guys.

It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different.

I was never the brains behind the band - that was always Liam. But together we were a complete package.

My preference for female company is based for the most part on the fact that women are more self-aware than men, in my experience.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

a man is no example for a woman. It’s a different thing.

Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know.

Men have to be hooked. Women don't need that. Women go freely into anything. That's their power and at the same time their drawback. Men have to be led and women have to be contained