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I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.
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Only when a woman shares male risks can she really begin to understand men.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for 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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Sexual harassment legislation in its present form makes all men unequal to all women.
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Ive always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.
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Our love for children is so immediate in part because we feel their powerlessness immediately conversely, part of the way we deny our love for men is by denying men's powerlessness. Too often we have confused love for men with respect for them, especially for their power to take care of us - which is really just love for ourselves.
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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.
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