Quote

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

Warren Farrell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
Activist
Author
Civil Rights Advocate
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Politician
Sociologist
Writer
Queens
New York
warren farrell
Legal
Like
Resolve
Boxing
Divorce
Coaches
Counselor
Asking
Divorced
Marriage
Coach
System

More quotes by Warren Farrell

Image
The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.
Warren Farrell
Image
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
Image
After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
Warren Farrell
Image
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
Image
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
Warren Farrell
Image
The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence they only keep men from complaining about it.
Warren Farrell
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.
Warren Farrell
Image
Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].
Warren Farrell
Image
Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
Warren Farrell
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.
Warren Farrell
Image
Employers are not prohibited from practicing sex discrimination in hiring and promoting employees.
Warren Farrell
Image
Many black men leave because they are financially responsible - not because they are emotionally irresponsible.
Warren Farrell
Image
The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.
Warren Farrell
Image
How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.
Warren Farrell
Image
Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
Warren Farrell