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Warren Farrell on Success

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)

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.