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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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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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[This is] the basis of the Innocent Woman Defense the Innocent Woman Principle:: Women are believed when they say they are innocent of violence and most easily doubted when they say they are guilty of violence.
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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.
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It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
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If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?
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In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.
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A man cannot tell whether a woman is in love with him or his security blanket until she is financially and psychologically independent enough to leave. Until a woman has learned how to leave, even she cannot be sure she has learned to love.
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It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.
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Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
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Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.
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There are 80 jobs in which women earn more than men - positions like financial analyst, speech-language pathologist, radiation therapist, library worker, biological technician, motion picture projectionist.
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After a divorce, men's biggest fear is, typically, losing their children (women's is poverty).
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Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.
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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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And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.
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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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I would suggest that just as women who make it in the world of business need male business mentors, perhaps men who make it in the world of emotions will need female emotional mentors.
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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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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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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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Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.
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