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Warren Farrell on Women

born 1943 United States

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Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.

Why Men Earn More (2005)

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

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.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

By age eighty-five, men’s suicide rate is 1,650 percent higher than that of women the same age.
Women cry, men die.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

If Women Have An Equal EMPLOYMENT Opportunity Commission, Why Don’t Men Have An Equal FAMILY Opportunity Commission?

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.

Why Men Earn More (2005)

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

If your son is unclear as to what a highly powerful woman wants from him, he is more likely to go for a woman who is less powerful who has some need for him.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

After divorce, women’s biggest fear is economic deprivation; men’s biggest fear is emotional deprivation.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

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

Why Men Earn More (2005)

The less our sons our trusted, the less women are able to really love them, and the more women feel entitled to use them as wallets.

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

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.

Why Men Earn More (2005)

In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?

Why Men Earn More (2005)

The motto of feminists: “There is never an excuse for hitting a woman.” Shouldn’t it be, “There is never an excuse for hitting.”?

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

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