Top 200 Warren Farrell Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.”

— Warren Farrell

52. “The Government as Substitute Husband did for women what labor unions still have not accomplished for men. And men pay dues for labor unions; the taxpayer pays the dues for feminism. Feminism and government soon become taxpayer-supported women’s unions.”

— Warren Farrell

53. “Male bashing is everywhere. It would be a mistake to view the current situation as another skirmish in the war between the sexes. Women have been doing the shooting, and men have been burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets will miss.”

— Warren Farrell

54. “Men will not change as long as women ‘marry up.’ Men won’t change until we have a perspective on how powerless power makes us. A woman cannot help a man change until she has a perspective on how powerless power makes men.”

— Warren Farrell

55. “Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.”

— Warren Farrell

56. “When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.”

— Warren Farrell

57. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

58. “Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won’t be accepted unless we are a Superman.”

— Warren Farrell

59. “Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant’s stress and prevents infection and blood clots.”

— Warren Farrell

60. “Industrialization created the Father’s Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.”

— Warren Farrell

61. “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

62. “When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.”

— Warren Farrell

63. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

64. “Sexual harassment legislation feels unfair to men because if they sued over an ethnic joke, or over a woman discussing pornography or asking them out, they’d be laughed out of the company.”

— Warren Farrell

65. “Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. Use is a dirty word only when theres an imbalance in the relationship.”

— Warren Farrell

66. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

67. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

68. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

69. “I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.”

— Warren Farrell

70. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

71. “Letting men die is a money-saving device. Safety costs money as one safety official put it, ‘When everything is hurry, hurry, hurry, when you start pressuring people and taking shortcuts, things can go wrong. And then people die.’ No. And then men die.”

— Warren Farrell

72. “And if your son is unemployed? Three out of four women say they would not date an unemployed man. In contrast, for two-thirds of men, dating an unemployed woman is a nonissue.”

— Warren Farrell

73. “Women-in-jeopardy movies are, in essence, the updated versions of men dying to save the princess from the dragon to earn her love. They are modern-day training films for teaching women to select the best protectors while weeding out the rest.”

— Warren Farrell

74. “Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn’t get all its oil from OPEC.”

— Warren Farrell

75. “In a study of more than twelve thousand teenagers after divorce, children living with single dads fared better than children living with single moms.”

— Warren Farrell

76. “If a woman isn’t being hazed, she’s not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.”

— Warren Farrell

77. “The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection.”

— Warren Farrell

78. “A man’s primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.”

— Warren Farrell

79. “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

80. “Nobody really believes in equality anyway.”

— Warren Farrell

81. “The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.”

— Warren Farrell

82. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

83. “Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.”

— Warren Farrell

84. “It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women’s disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women’s advantage.”

— Warren Farrell

85. “I define power as control over one’s life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.”

— Warren Farrell

86. “Although girls express their feelings more easily, what they receive most often from girlfriends and mom is reassurance. Unlike boys, who are frequently challenged by their friends, girls are less likely to have anyone besides their dad to go to with the anticipation of being challenged by someone who has her best interest at heart.”

— Warren Farrell

87. “Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.”

— Warren Farrell

88. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

89. “Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.”

— Warren Farrell

90. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

91. “One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.”

— Warren Farrell

92. “Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being “given up for a younger woman” is for a woman.”

— Warren Farrell

93. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

94. “A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.”

— Warren Farrell

95. “Fatherhood was about your dad trading in the old glint in his eye-what he loved to do- for the new glint in his eye: his love for you.”

— Warren Farrell

96. “A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.”

— Warren Farrell

97. “Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman – he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.”

— Warren Farrell

98. “When we hear men are the greater victims of crime, we tend to say, ‘Well, it’s men hurting other men.’ When we hear that blacks are the greater victims, we consider it racist to say, ‘Well, it’s blacks hurting blacks.’ The victim is a victim no matter who the perpetrator was.”

— Warren Farrell

99. “Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.”

— Warren Farrell

100. “I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.”

— Warren Farrell