Top 200 Warren Farrell Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “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

102. “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

103. “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

104. “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

105. “When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: – When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men; – When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.”

— Warren Farrell

106. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

107. “I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.”

— Warren Farrell

108. “My wife’s income allowed me to do what I really loved. I realized that women’s liberation is men’s liberation, too.”

— Warren Farrell

109. “In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.”

— Warren Farrell

110. “Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.”

— Warren Farrell

111. “If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.”

— Warren Farrell

112. “All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work – and therefore as dads.”

— Warren Farrell

113. “Asking the legal system to resolve divorce is like asking a boxing coach to be our marriage counselor.”

— Warren Farrell

114. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

115. “Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.”

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

117. “When male vervet monkeys fight in their wars with other groups of monkeys to protect their territory or to get food, female monkeys reward the best surviving “warriors” by grooming them. The social status of these warrior monkeys goes up, and therefore more female vervet monkeys want to mate with them. In contrast, the female monkeys ignore and “snap” at the male monkeys who abstain from battle.2.”

— Warren Farrell

118. “So we’ve moved from an era when women’s biology was women’s destiny to today, which is an era in which men’s biology is men’s destiny.”

— Warren Farrell

119. “In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.”

— Warren Farrell

120. “If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?”

— Warren Farrell

121. “I don’t think there’s anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.”

— Warren Farrell

122. “Men have not stacked the decks against women.”

— Warren Farrell

123. “By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.”

— Warren Farrell

124. “Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.”

— Warren Farrell

125. “On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother – to feel this way about her son?”

— Warren Farrell

126. “When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men’s responsibility.”

— Warren Farrell

127. “Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.”

— Warren Farrell

128. “I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.”

— Warren Farrell

129. “Men’s competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.”

— Warren Farrell

130. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

131. “I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts.”

— Warren Farrell

132. “In these ways, your son’s economic health can dictate his ability to be loved, which makes his economic health inseparable from his mental health, and therefore his physical health. And few things affect his economic health more than his education.”

— Warren Farrell

133. “When a dad admits he is wrong or asks for help, he allows the child to see him- or herself as adequate even when she or he is also wrong. It encourages children to make suggestions and, therefore, to discover their creativity because they have a chance of making a contribution.”

— Warren Farrell

134. “Blacks are six times more likely than whites to be victims of homicides.”

— Warren Farrell

135. “Three-quarters of dads who were in South Carolina jails for being behind in child support payments suffer from extreme poverty. And one-eighth of all South Carolina inmates are in jail for being behind in child support payments. No dad is imprisoned for not spending enough time with his children. And it is rare for a mom to go to jail for preventing dad from spending enough time with his children.”

— Warren Farrell

136. “Every day, 150 workers die from hazardous working conditions. And 92 percent are male.”

— Warren Farrell

137. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

138. “Until recently, the question was ‘Why can’t a woman be more like a man?’ It should have been changed to ‘Why can’t both sexes be more like the best parts of each other?’ Instead, the pendulum swung to the 1960s feminist lapel button Adam Was a First Draft. True enough. So are we all.”

— Warren Farrell

139. “Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.”

— Warren Farrell

140. “When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man’s body for 18-21 years without his consent.”

— Warren Farrell

141. “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?”

— Warren Farrell

142. “Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.”

— Warren Farrell

143. “There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men – positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.”

— Warren Farrell

144. “When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.”

— Warren Farrell

145. “For the first time in recent history, young men are more likely to live with their parents than with a partner.”

— Warren Farrell

146. “When only men could register to vote, we required only men to register for the draft. Today both sexes can vote, but only men must register for the draft.”

— Warren Farrell

147. “Alan Alda is loved not because he’s sensitive, but because he’s successful and sensitive.”

— Warren Farrell

148. “The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts – especially once he has to provide for children.”

— Warren Farrell

149. “The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.”

— Warren Farrell

150. “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.”

— Warren Farrell