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" 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. "

Warren Farrell

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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. "

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

" All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak. "

" 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. "

" I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men. "

" 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. "

" Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day. "

" 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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" Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize. "

" 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? "

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