Warren Farrell Quotes

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

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

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

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.

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

One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

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

We always look at the 'Fortune ,' 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.

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.

Men make more money but have lower net worths.

Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

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

It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.

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.

It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.

Men have not stacked the decks against women.

And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.

When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.

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.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

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

Men will not change as long as women 'marry up.' Men won't change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

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

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.

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.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

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.

I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

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

But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.

After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

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

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

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

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