Warren Farrell Quotes
-
Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being 'given up for a younger woman' is for a woman.
-
Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
-
After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.
-
How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
-
The most frequent way men are raped by adult women is 'birth control rape.'
-
Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
-
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.
-
When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
-
What is the impact on our children of this international 'Sisterhood is Victimhood' bonding?
-
Divorce laws have given women economic support after divorce; no laws have given men emotional support after divorce. Men are required to continue their obligations to their exes in the form of alimony or child support; women are not required to continue their obligation to their exes in the form of homemaking or nurturing.
-
Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
-
When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.
-
The worst form anger can take is that of a parent who feels her or his chance for 'winning my child' is enhanced by 'ruining my ex.' The law has given the most vindictive parent an invitation to play the 'abuse' card. This is the 'Great Temptation.'
-
Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.
-
Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.
-
Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.
-
We need to fund relationship language in our schools so that future parents will know how to communicate about whether they want children; to communicate with the children they have, and teach their children how to communicate with the world. Technical progress without social skills is a Tower of Babel.
-
During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call 'relationship language'? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.
-
The belief that men don’t need help is part of the problem.
-
Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
-
Laws with broad definitions of rape are like laws making 55 mile per hour speed limits for men and no speed limits for women.
-
By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.
-
Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
-
For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.