387 Quotes by Warren Farrell

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    Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

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    If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

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    Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement. And this creates a special challenge for men: There are few political movements filled with healthy people, yet few healthy changes have occurred without political movements.

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    By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

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    Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.

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

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    Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

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    No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.

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    Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

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