Quotes by Warren Farrell

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

— Warren Farrell

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The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

— Warren Farrell

Courage

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.

— Warren Farrell

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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.

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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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Wisdom

If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.

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Wisdom

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

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Wisdom

A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.

— Warren Farrell

Friendship

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

— Warren Farrell

Success

In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

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Wisdom

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.

— Warren Farrell

Courage

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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Wisdom

Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child.

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Wisdom

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

— Warren Farrell

Wisdom