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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. "

Warren Farrell

World

Sports

Women

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" Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men. "

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" Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person. "

" 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. "

" Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants. "

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Than

" 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. "

" A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things. "

" Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome. "

" 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. "