Warren Farrell Quotes
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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?
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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.'
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We are the offspring of approval-seekers. We want approval so badly that we vacillate between conforming to get it and standing out (being outstanding) to get it.
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In a democracy, a government’s policies are rarely questioned until the underlying assumptions that create them are questioned.
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A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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Solutions: (...) Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.
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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.
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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.
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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.
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If power means having control over one's own life, then perhaps there is no better ranking of the impact of sex roles and racism on power over our own lives than life expectancy.
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Tone of voice is more crucial than words.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
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Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves-thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.
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If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.