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

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
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In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'
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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.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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