Warren Farrell: Trending quotes (page 10)

“Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders; therefore, he was a follower… he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 9.

Appearance

“By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.”

Warren Farrell

page 97.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)

Men , Children

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

Warren Farrell

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

Women , Men , Fear

“Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 187.

Children , Birth , Parent

“[M]en who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches[…] are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 106.

Love , Men , Appearance

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

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 148.

Success , Daughters

“Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 281.

“When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 101.

God , People , Support , Sense

“For thousands of years women chose men based on their ability to provide. The more women increase their mastery of the workplace, the more they open themselves to partnership with a new type of man. It is my hope that Part One has begun a paradigm shift in the way we view men. As we saw women doing financially better than men in male-dominated professions, it hopefully offers a more generous view of the male attitude toward women in the workplace. As we contemplate making sacrifices to earn more, it is my hope we appreciate the sacrifices men have made to nurture the family by being their family's 'financial womb.”

Warren Farrell

Especially the sacrifices of 'working dads' and of dads' 'invisible juggling act'.
Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 122.

Women , Men , Family , Hope

“We are all gifted of the mouth, retarded of the ear.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 40.

“During the past thirty years, the women’s movement has supported women to express virtually every feeling women felt. To other women. To Men. To society. Women’s feelings became course curriculum, women’s studies, TV specials, talk shows, and Lifetime cable. Women’s feelings were called both education and entertainment. Men’s were repressed until they were called ulcers.”

Warren Farrell

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

Women , Men , Education , Feeling

“Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 194.

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

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 171.

Love , Women , Suicide

“We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman’s life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man’s life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 137.

Life , Thinking , Help

“As females enter the workplace, will our tendency to protect women create rules that will also protect men? Yes and no. Yes, when, for example, the new concern for doctors working fewer than eighty hours per week also affects men. No, when working-class jobs get divided into the males taking the hazardous jobs… and women taking safer jobs. And in professional careers, if males take irregular hours and specialties such as surgery, while females take regular hours and specialties like psychiatry, then we will only reinforce the female-protected class and the male-disposable class.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 213.

Women , Men

“Is a man’s body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life -- not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, “It’s a woman’s and man’s right to choose because it is a woman’s and man’s body at stake.””

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 132.

Life , Support , Time

“The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part II: The Glass Cellars of the disposable sex, p. 238.

Women

“Sexually, of course, the sexes aren’t equal. It is exactly a woman’s greater sexual power that often makes a man so fearful of being rejected by her that he buys himself drinks to reduce his fear. In essence, her sexual power often leads to him drinking; his sexual power rarely leads to her drinking. If anything is evidence of her power over him, it is his being expected to spend his money to buy her drinks without her reciprocating.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 320.

Money , Fear , Sex , Drink

“The United States follows the pattern of men taking the financial risks even within a given field. Women physicians are three times as likely as men to work for the government or an HMO; men physicians are much more likely to be self-employed in a solo practice.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 108.

Women , Men , Time

“In brief, sending a father-deprived child into the world and assuming everything is okay because the dad provides money is like sending a drunken driver onto the highway and assuming everything is okay because the gas is paid for. It doesn’t mean that the drunken driver will not get to his or her destination. It just means that the risks are enormous. And the consequences of failure are forever.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 122.

Money , World , Failure