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Quotes from Warren Farrell

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
~ Warren Farrell
Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
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
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
~ Warren Farrell
To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
~ Warren Farrell
The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
~ Warren Farrell
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
~ Warren Farrell
The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
~ Warren Farrell
I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes.
~ Warren Farrell
The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
~ Warren Farrell
Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
~ Warren Farrell
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
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.
~ Warren Farrell
Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
~ Warren Farrell
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 there's an imbalance in the relationship.
~ Warren Farrell
If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
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
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.
~ Warren Farrell