Warren Farrell Quotes

Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.

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

Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.

Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.

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.

Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.

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.

Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable.

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

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

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

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

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

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

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.

Falling in love is biologically natural; sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize

Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, 'When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.' No. And then men die.

Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

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

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.

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.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

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