Warren Farrell Quotes

The more a man is trained to “be a man,” the more he is trained to protect women and children, not hurt women and children. He is trained to volunteer to die before even a stranger is hurt – especially a woman or child.

When a parent denies a child its “parent time,” that parent is denying the child its child support -- its psychological child support.

When I eat a meal, I think of all the people whose labor has contributed to my nourishment, and that thought nourishes my appreciation. I hope it nourishes you too.

All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.

Emma Bovary had everything, and therefore nothing.

Today, violence against women is rightly abhorred. But we call violence against men entertainment. Think of football, boxing, wrestling... All are games used to sugarcoat violence against men, originally in need of sugarcoating so our team --or our society --could bribe its best protectors to sacrifice themselves.

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.

If we penalize mothers for denial of “visitation time” we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for “visitation time.” The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with -- divorce.

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

The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women’s unions.

The Moynihan report concluded that in a majority-black community the main predictor of growing up poor was not race but being born to parents who are not married. Why? A predictable outcome of no marriage was no father involvement.

By attending to the conscious part of ourselves, we contribute to the peace of others as well as ourselves.

A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.

A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.

It is only now that boys and men under fifty are twice as likely to die as girls and women the same age.