Warren Farrell Quotes
-
Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.
-
From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
-
In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.
-
There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.
-
In brief, she is the partner to what primarily he creates; he is the visitor to what primarily she creates. To me, this wasn’t equality.
-
If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.
-
Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
-
Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.
-
No movement calls migrant workers oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
-
We are at a unique moment in history - when a woman’s body is affected, we say the choice is hers; but when a boy’s body is affected, we say the choice is not his - the law requires our 18 year old sons to register for the draft, and therefore potential death-if-needed.
-
We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.
-
Killing the criticizer, then, is part of our evolutionary past; listening in response to criticism is part of our evolutionary future.
-
If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
-
ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters' deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving...
-
The function of gossip is to create an 'in group' bond by creating an 'out group' enemy.
-
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)
-
'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.
-
We often think that when a man insults another man by calling him a 'girl,' the insult reflects a contempt for women. No. It reflects a contempt for any man who is unwilling to make himself strong enough to protect someone as precious as a woman.
-
When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: -When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; -When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
-
If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
-
When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
-
In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.
-
After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.
-
In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.