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Warren Farrell on Love

born 1943 United States

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19 quotes

Does the new heroine mean your son won’t have to risk his life for her love?

The Boy Crisis (2018)

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

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Counterintuitively, when it comes to a loss of friendships and love, your son is the more vulnerable sex.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Industrialization created the “Father’s Catch-22”: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Father and Child Reunion (2001)

From the male perspective, when commitment is associated with diamonds and mortgages, promises of love can feel like promises of payment.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

And without love, your son’s purpose has no purpose.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988)

We teach boys to associate being abused with being loved.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.

The Myth of Male Power (1993)

Love doesn’t eliminate defensiveness, because love creates vulnerability, and defensiveness is vulnerability’s mask.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

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)

A father’s traditional role prepared him to love his family by being away from the love of his family.

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

A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.

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

Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye—what he loved to do—for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.

The Boy Crisis (2018)

No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.

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

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)

[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)

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)

Attribution

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