Warren Farrell Quotes
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
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.
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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.
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.
Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.
There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.
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.
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.
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men's victimizer status camouflages men's victim status.
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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.
Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.
On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace. The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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.
The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be - homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.