Warren Farrell: Trending quotes (page 9)

“Men are likely to be not only the warriors of war but also the warriors of peace. Almost all those who risk their lives, are put in jail, or are killed for peace are men. While some of the peace warriors—Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Dag Hammarskjold—are remembered, most are forgotten. Remember Norm Morrison? After years of protesting the Vietnam war, Norm doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire on the steps of the Pentagon[…] But Norm Morrison is forgotten.”

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. 153.

Men , War , Peace

“Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.”

Warren Farrell

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

Women

“In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 65.

Love , History , Time , Future

“A paucity of funding from private and government sources would be much less a problem if billions of dollars each year were not funding feminist perspectives on men. This funding leads to Women’s Studies without Men’s Studies; to studies about deadbeat dads, but not dead broke or dead-ended dads -- or moms who deny dads access to children, or make false accusations to obtain children.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 240.

Women , Men , Children , Moms

“The Ms. survey can call it a rape; a relationship counselor will call it a relationship.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 338.

“Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part III: Government as substitute husband, p. 288.

Women , Men

“In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”

Warren Farrell

page 103.
Father and Child Reunion (2001)

Sex , Girl , Boy , Past

“Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 215.

Men , Sex , Feeling

“Sex role training becomes divorce training.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 136.

Sex , Training

“Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in which physical strength is still the best way to protect women, as among the Dodos in Uganda, each time a man kills a man, he is awarded a ritual scar; the more scars, the more he is considered eligible.”

Warren Farrell book The Myth of Male Power

Source: The Myth of Male Power (1993), Part 1: The Myth of Male Power, p. 72.

Women , Men , Beauty , Way

“In the future, women will increasingly want men who can nurture them and connect with them.”

Warren Farrell

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

Women , Men , Future

“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 I’m doing now.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 163.

Life , Feeling

“Sitcoms routinely portray women hitting men, almost never portray men hitting women. When he fails to leave, it is not called “Battered Man Syndrome”; it is called comedy.”

Warren Farrell

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

Women , Men

“Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.”

Warren Farrell

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

“How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 16.

Women , Family , Home , Wedding

“Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.”

Warren Farrell

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

Men , War , People

“If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 18.

Men , Sex , Feeling , Question

“What makes a teenage boy’s anxiety so overwhelming is that a teenage boy’s socialization is the demand to perform without the resources to perform. As a result, not only are his risks many, but his failures many. And so apparent… Second, the biggest winners—the football players—are receiving love via self-abuse. For some boys, receiving love via self-abuse creates anxiety. But losing love creates even more anxiety.”

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. 167.

Love , Boy , Failure , Football

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

Warren Farrell

Source: Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994), p. 71.

Love , People , Feeling , Support

“Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault…to a fault.”

Warren Farrell

Source: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 93.

Moms