Warren Farrell Quotes

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.

If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

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.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.

Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

Solutions: ( ... ) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

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.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

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.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

Many black men leave because they are financially responsible
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.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.

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.'

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

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?

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

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.

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.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

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.

Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

[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.

Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

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.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

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.

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.

We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

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.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.

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.

Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight' ... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

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.

It is important that a woman's "noes" be respected and her "yeses" be respected.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

Sex role training becomes divorce training.

Men's greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women's greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be
homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support
its psychological child support.

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 I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.

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.

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).