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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now. (Warren Farrell)
When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning. View quote
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. View quote
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success. View quote
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me. View quote
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Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness. View quote
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them. View quote
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We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman's life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man's life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb? View quote
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. View quote
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually. View quote
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Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates. (Warren Farrell)
When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from... diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women. View quote
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man? View quote
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues. View quote
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer. View quote
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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love. View quote
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women. View quote
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Unless a woman asks men out (the first time) as often as men ask her out, then the assertion He asked me out, therefore he pays is just a double jeopardy of the male role: he must not only do the asking, he must pay extra for risking extra rejection. View quote
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A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time. View quote
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry. View quote
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In the case of a man and a woman [accused of commiting a crime together], both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience. (Warren Farrell)
When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used. View quote
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Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women. View quote
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When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training. View quote
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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females. View quote
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