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Men’s greatest weakness is their facade of strength, and women’s greatest strength is their facade of weakness.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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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.
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In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.
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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
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Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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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?
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Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.
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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.
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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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