Warren Farrell Quotes

Those feminists who say that masculinity is about men believing they can batter women display the deepest ignorance possible about men and masculinity.

My first conflict with NOW erupted in the mid-’70s when NOW chapters increasingly rejected father involvement by rejecting shared parent time as the preferred arrangement after divorce.

Both sexes work on their lines before they appear onstage. His lines are a lifetime of work; her introductory 'line' is her appearance--or her lack of lines. Just as careers give men power, so beauty gives women power. But just as the comparison between herself and the most beautiful women makes a woman feel powerless, so the comparison between himself and the most successful men makes a man feel powerless.

During what years should a child be introduced to better ways of giving and receiving criticisms – to what I call “relationship language”? Before school age. The best teacher? Parents.

Half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.

Suicide is contagious.

Traditional men make their sacrifices in significant measure in the hopes of being appreciated when they come home, and having their learning experiences integrated into their homes.

Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye—what he loved to do—for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.

When children in homes with less income and more father were compared to children in homes with more income but less father, there was no difference in the rates of violent crime.

The Industrial Revolution, then, took men’s occasional absence from home -- previously needed only in wartime and for hunting -- and made it the norm. This increasing division of labor magnified the division of men’s and women’s interests. It magnified the belief in the maternal instinct and the reality of the distant father. Prior to industrialization, divorces usually led to children living with dads. Not after.

[T]he men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.

Industrialization created the “Father’s Catch-22”: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Virtually 100 percent of TV ads that portray only one sex as a jerk portray the man as the jerk.

The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.