Warren Farrell quotes

Warren Farrell is an American author, educator, and activist known for his work on gender issues and men’s rights. His books explore the evolving roles of men and women in society and promote dialogue around gender equality. He has been recognized as a leading voice in discussions surrounding modern masculinity and family dynamics. Here are 577 of his quotes:

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. (Warren Farrell)
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants. View quote
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. View quote
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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. View quote
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts. View quote
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Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements. View quote
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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century. View quote
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools. View quote
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Until recently, the question was 'Why can't a woman be more like a man?' It should have been changed to 'Why can't both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?' Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all. View quote
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness. View quote
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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. (Warren Farrell)
Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values. View quote
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Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they'd be laughed out of the company. View quote
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust. View quote
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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC. View quote
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Choosing safety is a choice of life over career. View quote
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Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis. View quote
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The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be-- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive. View quote
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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman. View quote
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life. View quote
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. (Warren Farrell)
Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men. View quote
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When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft. View quote
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Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage-thus we either don't see it, or when confronted, deny it. View quote
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A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life. View quote
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