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Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce my partner understands me.

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.
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Is a man's body at stake? Any time a man is asked to work to pay child support, he is using his body, his time, his life - not for nine months, but for a minimum of 18 to 21 years. So the motto of the feminist with integrity is, 'It's a woman's and man's right to choose because it is a woman's and man's body at stake.'
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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Falling in love is biologically natural sustaining love is biologically un-natural. Sustaining love requires a learned discipline. The discipline of love. The discipline of understanding our partner. (I've never heard someone say I want a divorce - my partner understands me.)
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Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than arts graduates (or law grads). So whatever money you make you can keep a bit longer.
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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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In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money - not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' [the instructor replied,] 'it's not relevant to men.'
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Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.
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Crime, especially crime involving money, reflects the gap between the expectation to provide and the ability to provide... If we really want men to commit crime as infrequently as women, we can start by not expecting men to provide for women more than we expect women to provide for men.
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Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from weaker schools.
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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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I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
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In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.
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You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income.
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For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.
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A person working 45 hours per week averages 44% more income than someone working 40 hours per week. That's 44% more income for 13% more time.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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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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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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