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

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being given up for a younger woman is for a woman.
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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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Women's liberation and the male midlife crisis were the same search--for personal fulfillment, common values, mutual respect, love. But while women's liberation was thought of as promoting identity, the male midlife crisis was thought of as an identity crisis.
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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.
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Both parents' rights must be in balance so children can grow up with a balance between both parents.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.
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