When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Humans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves. Thus blacks asserted black pride and 'black is beautiful;' women declared… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty). — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Women's genetic celebrity power magnifies men's protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men's addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money,… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so men's [sexual] affairs did not put women's economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
We have restricted humans from giving 'free' food to bears and dolphins because we know that such feeding would make them dependent and lead… — Warren Farrell Copy Share
Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. — Warren Farrell Copy Share
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what… — Warren Farrell Copy Share