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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.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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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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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
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I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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