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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time? And women are intelligent enough to say, I need more time. And so, women lead balanced lives men should be learning from women.
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Visitation reflects the era of the absentee father parent time influences the re-emergence of the involved father. Visitation reflects the destruction of the family parent time influences the reconstruction of the family. Parent time influences an era that understands that as either parent loses, so lose the children.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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Solutions: Seek an understanding of the other sex's best intent.
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Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.
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The sexist perception that violence by anyone against only women is anti-woman while violence by a woman against only men is just generic violence creates a political demand for laws that are even more protective of women.
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Our children are better served by speaking not of visitation versus custody, but of parent time.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.
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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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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize
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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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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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When men in relationships have more money, we say they have the power. When women in relationships have more money, we say they are being used.
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It is ironic that a movement that made its reputation championing the irrelevance of biological differences when those differences were to most women's disadvantage immediately returned to biological determinism when those differences were to the most women's advantage.
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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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Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).
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