Warren Farrell Quotes
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Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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You wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.
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Why can't I just eat my waffle?
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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To end the pervasive culture of sexual harassment, it can no longer be the norm that men look the other way. It only ends when men actively participate in ending it.
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We treat our dogs as if they were "almost human": that is why they really become "almost human" in the end.
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I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.
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People don't just show up in the C-suite overnight.
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.