Warren Farrell: Trending quotes (page 11)

“Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.”

Warren Farrell

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

Women , Men , Pain , Learning

“People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest… A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 93-94.

People , Change , Future

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

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 134.

Love , Success

“Single women often fear that the men they are going out with wouldn't be comfortable with less career and more child. Perhaps. If a woman selects a man with a lot of career ambition, she'll get what she selected. The solution? Choose among men who would love to be married to a career woman who valued his being home full-time with the children for a few years. Can't find these men? State your interest on your Match. com profile--the Internet's the best net to catch the right fish. You'll be surprised.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 83-84.

Love , Women , Men , Children

“When mining… and other death professions are discussed in feminist publications, they are portrayed as examples of the male power system, as male-only clubs. However, when Ms. Magazine profiled female miners, the emphasis was on how the woman was ‘forced’ to take a job in the mines because it paid the best, and how taking such a job was the only way she could support her family.”

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. 116.

Death , Family , Way , Support

“Killing the criticizer, then, is part of our evolutionary past; listening in response to criticism is part of our evolutionary future.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 41.

Past , Future , Parting

“A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 154.

Support , Dependency

“If we penalize mothers for denial of “visitation time” we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for “visitation time.” The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with -- divorce.”

Warren Farrell

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

Children , Parent , Time

“Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.”

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 , Men

“The one-sided funding creates one-sided images that reinforce the press defining as progress an examination of only women’s issues. Thus, a quarter century’s-worth of studies showing domestic violence against men to be more than equal to domestic violence against women receive so little publicity as to barely make a dent on the public’s consciousness.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 241.

Women , Men , Study

“Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.”

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. 237.

Women , Law

“When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from… diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.”

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. 182.

Life , Death , Women , Men

“If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?”

Warren Farrell

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

“In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.”

Warren Farrell

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

“While we call role models 'leaders', most 'leaders' are really followers. Most 'leaders' follow their bribes. And we are the people who offer the bribes. We in essence give men two bribes to risk their lives: pay and praise… A man who self-selects for a death profession expects his body to be used in exchange for pay. The unspoken motto of the death professions is 'My body, not my choice.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 40.

Death , Men , People

“It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 136.

Women

“Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 18.

Money , Law , Art , Study

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

Warren Farrell

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

Love , Family

“The deeper purpose of a more positive attitude toward men is a better life for the children who are parented by the men who are their dads and stepdads; less shame for our sons who will become men; and, for our daughters, a deeper understanding of men's desire to please that leaves them feeling their willingness to please is not unrequited but returned--allowing our daughters to feel less lonely and more loved. If we earn more and love less, we pay for a home in which we do not live.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Earn More (2005), p. 123.

Love , Life , Men , Children

“There is little life where no one will listen. These are fathers, sons and families who are needlessly lost.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 241.

Life , Family