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

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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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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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
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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.
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When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
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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.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.
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