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" And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct. "

Warren Farrell

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" We always look at the 'Fortune 500,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards. "

" Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes. "

" So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny. "

" 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. "

" I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City. "

" It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. "

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" I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. "

" I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner. "

" Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted. "

" Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do. "

" Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement. "

" After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives. "

" People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week. "

" Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially. "

" The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead. "

" I definitely agree with choices for women, but I do not agree with choices for women when they eliminate choices for men. Rather, I think that the sexes need to make choices that lead to the maximum amount of win-win for both sexes. "

" The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. "

" Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV. "

" Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. "

" I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers. "

" The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government. "

" When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.' "

" In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard. "

" Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards. "

" In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary. "

" Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. "