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" I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. "

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" If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege? "

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" For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles. "

" One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive. "

" Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.' "

" 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. "

" If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card. "

" Men have the influence and power in business and politics. It is the mother who can make the child's bedtime earlier, take away desserts or ground the child. "

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

" You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income. "

" The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us. "

Warren Farrell

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" Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child. "

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

" Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders. "

" 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. "

" My wife's income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. "

" Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants. "

Warren Farrell

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" A 2001 survey of business owners with MBAs conducted by the Rochester Institute of Technology found that money was the primary motivator for only 29% of women, versus 76% of men. Women prioritized flexibility, fulfillment, autonomy and safety. "

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

" Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship. "

" I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too. "

" 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. "

" For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object. "

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

" Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies. "

" While girls average a healthy five hours a week on video games, boys average 13. The problem? The brain chemistry of video games stimulates feel-good dopamine that builds motivation to win in a fantasy while starving the parts of the brain focused on real-world motivation. "

" I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. "

" If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay. "