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Warren Farrell on Graduation

born 1943 United States

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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

The gender gap in education might really stem from sons’ greater vulnerability to father absence.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

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)

We interview people who are extraordinary successes, so they are visible. We ignore people who create a balanced life, so they are invisible.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

[T]he men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he’ll be trapped into becoming a success object.

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.