Warren Farrell Quotes
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Warren Farrell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.
The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.
My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'
Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible
not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support
its psychological child support.
its psychological child support.
The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be
homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight' ... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.
Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.
I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.