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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.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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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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No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning for providing their wives with homes while they sleep on the ground.
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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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The rules of sexism do not free men from the terror of violence they only keep men from complaining about it.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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If we hold the married man accountable for finances gone legally awry, then the married woman should be held accountable for children who go awry.
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Because of the feminist perspective, we have gotten a view of the world that is distorted.
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He and she become selective at different points she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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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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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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[With respect to child custody] a woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man's life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman's life.
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The male corporate model is built on a mans greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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Both sexes allow men dentists inside our mouths, but, well, have you ever let a man who is a dental hygienist inside your mouth? The man must earn his way to our private places in a way not required of a woman--he must become the doctor or the dentist, or forget it.
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If an employer had to pay a man one dollar for the same work a woman could do for 59 cents, why would anyone hire a man?
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Sex role training becomes divorce training.
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