WarrenFarrell Quotes

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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment.

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Who causes war? War is caused by our primal fear of not surviving. This is a two-sex fear. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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Even a 30-year-old man whose wife dies is eleven times more likely to commit suicide than a 30-year-old man whose wife is living.

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I define power as "control over one' life." Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

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From evening soaps to preteen romances, the message is that inner values are for losers. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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Letting men die is a money-saving device. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a 'sexual suspect' makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls.

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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women.

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Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love.

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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to wo*rry about success. http://t.co/h4Qod9AsdH

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As long as society tells men to be the salespersons of sex, it is sexist for society to put only men in jail if they sell well.

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The weakness of men is the facade of strength: the strength of women is the facade of weakness. http://t.co/5AtGhM85T4

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

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When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. http://t.co/5AtGhM85T4

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With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men's victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer.

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Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love.

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On oilrigs men who only work an 8-hour day are contemptuously called "nine-to-fivers." http://t.co/5AtGhM85T4