Warren Farrell Quotes

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• When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

  Warren Farrell

  Commitment, Independence, Marrying

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• In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'

  Warren Farrell

  Men, San Diego, Notes

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

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  Dirty, Men, Law

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• I am often asked why men don't get as worked up as they might about women - particularly poor women - having to use their bodies as prostitutes. Because most men unconsciously experience themselves as prostitutes every day - the miner, the firefighter, the construction worker, the logger, the soldier, the meatpacker - these men are prostitutes in the direct sense: they sacrifice their bodies for money and for their families.

  Warren Farrell

  Sacrifice, Men, Construction Workers

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• 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.

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  Men, Used, More Money

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

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  Feminist, Devil, Female

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• The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Weakness, Facade

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

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  Feminism, Males, Female

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Long, Perspective

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

  Warren Farrell

  Business, Men, Competition

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• Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Integrity, Men

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Vindictive, Rejected

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• It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of the vote got away with calling itself the victim... Women are the only 'oppressed' group to share the same parents as the 'oppressor'; to be born into the middle class and upper class as frequently as the 'oppressor'; to own more of the culture's luxury items than the 'oppressor'.

  Warren Farrell

  Class, Luxury, Parent

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• 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.

  Warren Farrell

  Males, Definitions, Earning

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• Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

  Warren Farrell

  Falling In Love, Divorce, Love Is

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• I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Gone, Poor

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• Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

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  Men, Pay, Bodyguard

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

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  Daughter, Dad, Father

  "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.

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• Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

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  Choices, Partners, Statements

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.

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  Independent, Men, Enough

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being 'given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone.

  Warren Farrell

  Retirement, Children, Home

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

  Warren Farrell

  People, Support, Purpose

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Glasses, Safety

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• Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Boxing, Legal System

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• In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Sound, Nails

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