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Warren Farrell on Women

born 1943 United States

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66 quotes

Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

When your son has sex with a woman, he puts his life in her hands.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

Why Men Earn More (2005)

If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

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

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

The harder it is to find a job, the harder it is to find a woman.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

In The Second Stage, Friedan predicted women’s career goals would never be achieved if men were not more incorporated into the fathering role.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

We do not yet understand that when we neglect men, we rape women.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

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

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

The women who were best able to grow spiritually and psychologically had married men who were the least able to grow.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

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.

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

By 2015, in good economic times, boys and men were committing suicide three and a half times more often than women.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

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

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Warren Farrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.