Bobby Riggs Quotes

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.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.

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

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

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.

There's still a massive inequality between the genders. If you look at the trajectory of a male actor's career, there's no hesitation or hiatus. But women after the age of 35 to 40 are rarely placed in the centre of the story.

Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

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

It's more acceptable for guys to get old and craggy and become wonderful character actors as they get older, but women aren't allowed to get old and craggy in the same way.

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

It's easy for women to say they don't understand and ask a man for help. As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.

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

People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.

All women like to look up to their men.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Women become invisible as they age; men become impotent.

I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.

With men it's always like this in Russia - they always want to be the head of everything.

It's not easy casting the men. You have to go gingerly, but you have to approach the right man at the right time because men don't want to play second fiddle to a woman. That's the truth.

You'll have a guy, and they're aging however they're aging, and nobody really cares. If you're a woman, it's different.

You get the older version of women that you've played before.

Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot for them to do. It's just coffee-pouring on a bigger scale.