Quotes from Warren Farrell

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

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.

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.

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.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

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

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

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

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.

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

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

The equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

Children living with their dad felt positively about their mom; children living with their mom were more likely to think negatively of their dad.

And if your son is unemployed? Three out of four women say they would not date an unemployed man. In contrast, for two-thirds of men, dating an unemployed woman is a nonissue.

In these ways, your son's economic health can dictate his ability to be loved, which makes his economic health inseparable from his mental health, and therefore his physical health. And few things affect his economic health more than his education.

Every day in about half the advertisements, a man sees the constant reminder of the woman he was not worthy of.