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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:

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

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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.

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Here's the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

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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.

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

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

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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.

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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .

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Dads-to-be are almost twice as likely to prefer a daughter to a son.

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The Great Law of the Iroquois is that our most sacred duty is to think seven generations ahead in making any decision-to be aware of whether the decisions we make today will benefit not just ourselves and our children, but our children's children several generations into the future.

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When a boy drives down the serpentine road of mental health, feeling depressed and isolated because he feels no one who knows the real him loves him, no one needs him, and there's no hope of that changing, he may one day find a cliff and drive off.

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More black boys between ten and twenty are killed by homicide than by the next nine leading causes of death combined.

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Worth less, men considered themselves worthless.

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We often allow that the disproportionate percentage of young black men in prison may reflect our racism, but rarely contemplate whether, since the other half of "black men” is "men,” that it may also reflect our sexism.

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It is only now that boys and men under fifty are twice as likely to die as girls and women the same age.

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Whether through bigorexia or choosing the death professions, our sons, like our daughters, are often responding to what they feel will give them more approval and respect.

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Over the last forty years, the median annual earnings of a boy with just a high school diploma dropped 26 percent.

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In the United States, by eighth grade, 41 percent of girls are at least "proficient” in writing, while only 20 percent of boys are.

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Since empathy and emotional intelligence can be taught, and these skills are key to preparing our sons for the professions that will be in the greatest demand, we need to integrate this curriculum into our schools in the formative years.

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Suicide now takes "more lives than war, murder, and natural disasters combined, stealing more than 36 million years of healthy life” around the world.

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The Japanese boys' unconscious wisdom is: their dad as winner is really their dad as loser.

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Had John attended to his first son, Julian, the way he attended to Sean, we would never have heard of John Lennon.

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