Top 200 Warren Farrell Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “If your son is heterosexual, then he discovers the harder it is to find a job, the harder it is to find a woman.”

— Warren Farrell

152. “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

153. “The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.”

— Warren Farrell

154. “In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.”

— Warren Farrell

155. “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

156. “Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.”

— Warren Farrell

157. “Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.”

— Warren Farrell

158. “Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.”

— Warren Farrell

159. “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

160. “The problem? There has been no parallel effort to help our sons become multipurpose men. The female-only scholarships and affirmative action for our daughters to enter the STEM professions is not matched by the male-only scholarships and affirmative action for our sons to enter the “caring professions” – elementary school teachers, social workers, nurses, dental hygienists, marriage and family therapists, or becoming a full-time dad.”

— Warren Farrell

161. “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

162. “Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.”

— Warren Farrell

163. “Helping your son develop his sense of purpose requires beginning at a very different place than his dad-or granddad. His dad or granddad was told his sense of purpose. Your job is to help your son find his sense of purpose.”

— Warren Farrell

164. “Men make more money but have lower net worths.”

— Warren Farrell

165. “It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.”

— Warren Farrell

166. “Ideally there should not be a men’s movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women’s movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men’s movement.”

— Warren Farrell

167. “The five different areas in which boys are in crisis – education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness – are handled by different portions of the government.”

— Warren Farrell

168. “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

169. “The best parent is both parents” means mommy is no substitute for daddy, money is not substitute for daddy, and another man is no substitute for daddy. Just as daddy is no substitute for mommy, money is no substitute for mommy, and another woman is no substitute for mommy. Divorce does not change that. The best parent is still both parents.”

— Warren Farrell

170. “If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.”

— Warren Farrell

171. “When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.”

— Warren Farrell

172. “Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.”

— Warren Farrell

173. “What’s a boy-friendly way for a nonacademically inclined boy to use his mind? Having a concrete goal. If a boy has a concrete goal of being a welder, that catalyzes motivation to study the physics and chemistry necessary to become a high-paid welder.”

— Warren Farrell

174. “So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.”

— Warren Farrell

175. “For me, the massiveness of what I don’t know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.”

— Warren Farrell

176. “Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.”

— Warren Farrell

177. “Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.”

— Warren Farrell

178. “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?”

— Warren Farrell

179. “Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.”

— Warren Farrell

180. “It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.”

— Warren Farrell

181. “To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I’ve gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.”

— Warren Farrell

182. “The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be – homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.”

— Warren Farrell

183. “But here’s the first clue: the male-female pay gap is not a gap between men and women; it is a gap between moms and dads. Or more precisely, between men and women’s work-life decisions when they become moms and dads.”

— Warren Farrell

184. “That is, findings published in Pediatrics in 2017 concluded that “at 9 years of age, children with father loss have significantly shorter telomeres.”1 Telomeres in our cells are what keep our genes from being deleted as our cells divide. As the National Academy of Sciences reports, “Telomere length in early life predicts lifespan.”2.”

— Warren Farrell

185. “Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.”

— Warren Farrell

186. “Now, since I’m a husband and father, discrimination against women isn’t just political, it’s personal.”

— Warren Farrell

187. “I’ve gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.”

— Warren Farrell

188. “In brief, we spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have-the time their children need.”

— Warren Farrell

189. “When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.”

— Warren Farrell

190. “In one generation, young men have gone from 61 percent of college degree recipients to a projected 39 percent; young women, from 39 percent to a projected 61 percent.”

— Warren Farrell

191. “Their successful husbands had learned that earning money led to love. Because it did. However, earning money didn’t sustain love. As women were becoming more in touch with and sharing what was bothering them, their husbands were often burying their heads in the sand, hoping the bullets would miss. The more successful they were, the more they learned to repress their feelings, not express their feelings.”

— Warren Farrell

192. “In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.”

— Warren Farrell

193. “Aside from their physical health, this damages both our sons’ psychological security, and our nation’s global security: a third of young men are not fit for military service owing to obesity and other physical and mental problems.”

— Warren Farrell

194. “This is the first time in history that we’ve had this level of luxury, so we have a new opportunity to rethink the way we approach God.”

— Warren Farrell

195. “If children live in separate homes, proximity to the other parent has been found to be the single most important factor determining a child’s likelihood of success.”

— Warren Farrell

196. “The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.”

— Warren Farrell

197. “It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.”

— Warren Farrell

198. “Your son is more likely to seek a job in a sector that is being increasingly outsourced overseas- as with computer technology and manufacturing, as well as online jobs. Your daughter is more likely to hold jobs in stable sectors that are more recession proof, like health and education, both of which are 75 percent women.”

— Warren Farrell

199. “For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.”

— Warren Farrell

200. “Peter’s dad, Joe, had prepared his son to know that a certain amount of hazing is the price of admission for acceptance, not rejection. 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 for success.”

— Warren Farrell