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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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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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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.
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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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Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad find a woman who will support you.
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Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.
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Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.
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It is important that a woman’s “noes” be respected and her “yeses” be respected.
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Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.
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When we look at the pay of men and women who do work equal hours, two discoveries are quite astonishing: --When women and men work less than 40 hours a week, the women earn more than the men --When men and women work more than 40, the men earn more than the women.
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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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All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.
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When a man is able to connect with his feelings, he is able to care more.
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Women's greater social desirability and beauty power afford opportunities for creating both measurable and invisible income. While the opportunities are available to almost all women and some men, they are available in abundance to the genetic celebrity ... a woman so beautiful that men do more than look and talk--they follow her.
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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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A man's primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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It is in the interests of both sexes to hear the other sex's experience of powerlessness.
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