Warren Farrell Quotes

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.' Especially the sacrifices of 'working dads' and of dads' 'invisible juggling act'.

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

If we get more of what we pay for, then let’s pay to get more dads, rather than pay more when dads are absent.

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.

Dads—like moms, air, and water—are essential to our lives.

While your son’s internal security is most likely to be enhanced by the hands-on involvement of both parents, even one conscious parent can lead the way.

[H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves—thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.

Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.

Here’s the pay paradox that Why Men Earn More explains: Men earn more money, therefore men have more power; and men earn more money, therefore men have less power (earning more money as an obligation, not an option). The opposite is true for women: Women earn less money, therefore women have less power; and women earn less money, therefore women have more power (the option to raise children, or to not take a hazardous job).

Feminism has taught women to sue men for sexual harassment or date rape when men initiate with the wrong person or with the wrong timing; no one has taught men to sue women for sexual trauma for saying “yes,” then “no,” then “yes.” … Men [are] still expected to initiate, but now, if they [do] it badly, they could go to jail.

The gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites.

The more a boy represses his feelings and puts armor around his heart, the harder it is to open our hearts to him.

Does the new heroine mean your son won’t have to risk his life for her love?

In the future, women will increasingly want nurturer-connectors, since part of what he will be nurturing is her ability to protect herself.