Warren Farrell Quotes - Page 9

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

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

Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

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.

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.

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

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

The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

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.

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.

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

Framework, (...) addiction to female beauty and sex; deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (.

When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.

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

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.

We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead to their extinction. But when it comes to our own species, we have difficulty seeing the connection between short-term kindness and long-term cruelty; we give women money to have more children, making them more dependent with each child and discouraging them from developing the tools to fend for themselves. The real discrimination against women, then, is 'free feeding'.

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

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.

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

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.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

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