Warren Farrell Quotes

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

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

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

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

The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.

Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

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.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another's needs creates empathy.

It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.

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.

Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

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

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

In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

This is the first time in history that we've had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

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

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

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

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

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

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

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

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

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

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

Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

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

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.