“One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean "power" and "self-fulfillment."”

— 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. 232.

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