Top 200 Warren Farrell Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.”

— Warren Farrell

2. “In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.”

— Warren Farrell

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

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4. “In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.”

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5. “Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.”

— Warren Farrell

6. “A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.”

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7. “With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.”

— Warren Farrell

8. “In brief, when a man fails as a wallet, we put him in prison; when a woman fails as a mother, we offer her social services. We’re taking a criminal approach to men, a social services approach to women.”

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

10. “Men don’t oppress women any more than women oppress men.”

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11. “Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.”

— Warren Farrell

12. “Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.”

— Warren Farrell

13. “When a parent denies a child its parent time, that parent is denying the child its child support – its psychological child support.”

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14. “Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.”

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15. “Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.”

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

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17. “Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.”

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18. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

19. “Let’s face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don’t do.”

— Warren Farrell

20. “On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.”

— Warren Farrell

21. “Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.”

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22. “The only men who aren’t in fear of women’s reactions are usually men who aren’t born or who are dead.”

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23. “Women’s liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search – for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women’s liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.”

— Warren Farrell

24. “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

25. “Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.”

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26. “Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.”

— Warren Farrell

27. “Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.”

— Warren Farrell

28. “The boy crisis’ primary cause is dad-deprived boys. Dad deprivation stems primarily from a lack of father involvement, and secondarily from devaluing what a father contributes when he is involved.”

— Warren Farrell

29. “Men are not only women’s unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman’s bodyguard.”

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30. “Teaching the child to treat boundaries seriously teaches the child to respect the rights and needs of others. Thinking of another’s needs creates empathy.”

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31. “Many black men leave because they are financially responsible – not because they are emotionally irresponsible.”

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32. “The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.”

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33. “Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or ’death professions.”

— Warren Farrell

34. “There are 25 differences in the way women and men behave in the workplace. These 25 differences lead to men receiving higher pay and women having better lives or at least more balanced lives.”

— Warren Farrell

35. “The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.”

— Warren Farrell

36. “Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I’ve never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.”

— Warren Farrell

37. “Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.”

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38. “Male-female fusion does not create women’s rights. It creates a fusion of rights.”

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39. “Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.”

— Warren Farrell

40. “We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.”

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41. “People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.”

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42. “Children living with their dad felt positively about their mom; children living with their mom were more likely to think negatively of their dad.”

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43. “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.”

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44. “The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.”

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45. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

46. “The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women’s equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men’s equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman’s child-bearing womb.”

— Warren Farrell

47. “The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence; they only keep men from complaining about it.”

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

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49. “When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.”

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50. “Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.”

— Warren Farrell