Warren Farrell Quotes
Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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For me, a lot of Discipline was very personal writing, like writing through and working out being inside this gendered body and also the compulsions of the body, the muting of the mind as driven by the body. My father had died some years ago so he haunts the book too, just floats through it ghost-like. But, the writing of every book is different for me. They are so like living creatures, these books, so I don't know what's carried over into the writing of the next things - except maybe that I'm best when I make my writing practice a routine.
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So let's take our time to say what we want. Use what we got before it's all gone.
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I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.
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I'm a straight white man - I have options, and I'm not blocked on a consistent basis when I wake up in the morning because of my race, sex, and orientation.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
