Warren Farrell Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  Warren Farrell

  Block, Giving, Roles

  Interview with J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

• Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

  Warren Farrell

  Jobs, Men, Giving

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

• 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'.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Kindness, Real

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

• By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

  Warren Farrell

  Running, Husband, Father

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

• When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

  Warren Farrell

  Divorce, Makeup, Men

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

• I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

  Warren Farrell

  Giving Up, Giving, Pay

  "Why Men Earn More". Book by Warren Farrell, 2005.

• To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

  Warren Farrell

  Giving, Attention, Body

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

• Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Giving, Trying

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

• The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Giving Up, Men

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

• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom - the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army

  Warren Farrell

  Army, Men, Boys

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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