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Quotes from Warren Farrell

We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
~ Warren Farrell
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
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
~ Warren Farrell
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
~ Warren Farrell
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?
~ Warren Farrell
When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.
~ Warren Farrell
Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
~ Warren Farrell
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
~ Warren Farrell
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
~ Warren Farrell
Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
~ Warren Farrell
Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.
~ Warren Farrell
In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.
~ Warren Farrell
Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.
~ Warren Farrell
Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
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.
~ Warren Farrell
Men have not stacked the decks against women.
~ Warren Farrell
A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
~ Warren Farrell
Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
~ Warren Farrell