Bobby Riggs Quotes

John Wayne treated me fine, but that macho stuff turns me off. It's not real.

When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.

No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.

Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

Violence has always been unfortunately embedded in masculinity, this alpha thing.

Our leaders are archaic masculine figures in so far as they are aggressively old-fashioned in their masculinity, people like Trump, potentially Boris Johnson.

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

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

The older we women grow, the more clearly we see what men really are: hypocrites, boasters, he-goats. The older men grow, the more they doll us up with every perfection.

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

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon.

My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved.

So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.

Some men are so macho they'll get you pregnant just to kill a rabbit.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and Bob, had there been no women in the world.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.

[Referring to Jesse Jackson:] ... one of that machismo group.

Our age-old faith in divine male intuition is no longer good enough. Reality check, fellas: We are not gods. We are men. Let's own it.

It's really hard for a lot of men to have the woman accomplishing more than them.

There has been two awful fights in town this week. You don't know anything about such fighting at home as I speak of; this is no place for women and children, yet, although they all say it is so quiet here... if a man fights in Kansas and gets whipped, he never says anything more about it. If he does, he will get whipped for his trouble.

I'm out to prove that a guy 55 years old, with one foot in the grave, can play with the best woman in the world and maybe beat her. It'll be a big boost for men's superiority.