Quotes By 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.

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.

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

The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

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

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

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.