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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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" 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. "

" Once boys' and men's challenges are clear, the question 'why now' quickly becomes 'why didn't we see this sooner?' The answer? Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. "

" A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. "

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

" Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children. "

" 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. "

" Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology. "

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

" Men have not stacked the decks against women. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. "

" A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. "

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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. "

" We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "