Warren Farrell Quotes

When a woman appears to express fear, we cannot assure her without at least releasing her from responsibility; when we interpret the same emotion in a man as anger, we want to blame him and be certain he acknowledges responsibility. We want to find her guiltless; we want to find him guilty.

If your son sees being an oppressor as his future, being a failure to launch might look like progress.

Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.

From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.

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.

Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.

Preparing his son to be a football hero was Jack’s dad’s unconscious way of preparing Jack for manhood by preparing him to sacrifice his body in exchange for the social bribes of being praised and valued.

Our children are better served by speaking not of “visitation” versus “custody,” but of “parent time.”

Whether through bigorexia or choosing the death professions, our sons, like our daughters, are often responding to what they feel will give them more approval and respect.

Employers are NOT prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.

“The best parent is both parents” means mommy is no substitute for daddy, money is no substitute for daddy, and another man is no substitute for daddy.

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

When a government subsidy deprives the child of its dad the government is really subsidizing child abuse.

When the house is clean and the bills are paid, the effort our partner makes to keep things the same are invisible exactly because things are the same.

Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence.