Warren Farrell Quotes

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

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

Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

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

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.

Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

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.

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?

By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.

People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.

A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.

Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.

The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).

Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.

Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.

I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.

The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.