Top 200 Warren Farrell Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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?”

— Warren Farrell

102. “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

103. “But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed.”

— Warren Farrell

104. “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

105. “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

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. “In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.”

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

110. “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

111. “The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite to success.”

— Warren Farrell

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

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

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

118. “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

119. “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

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

— Warren Farrell

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “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

126. “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

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

— Warren Farrell

128. “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

129. “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

130. “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

131. “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

132. “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

133. “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

134. “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

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

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

138. “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

139. “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

140. “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

141. “By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.”

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

144. “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.”

— Warren Farrell

145. “Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.”

— Warren Farrell

146. “The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.”

— Warren Farrell

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

— Warren Farrell

148. “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

149. “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

150. “In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls.”

— Warren Farrell