Warren Farrell Quotes

I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out.

My dad usually never has time for my skating, which is OK because they have to make a living somehow. For them to put their business on hold and come all the way to Korea to watch me skate - especially my dad - he feels responsible not just for my mom and for himself, but there are a lot of people who work there, too.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

I would say for every successful black woman in America or in the world, really, it's difficult to be the head of the household, financially. It is for the man in your life. It can be very hard for them. And there's a delicate balance. I'm not quite sure I know what that balance is just yet.

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

I haven't got a car or a house. I've got a wife, but I didn't pay for her! I spend all my money on my glorious wife. She's here with a knife at my throat!

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries.

My pecuniary circumstances (barely competent) and my settled domestic habits make it very undesirable for me to be in high office with low pay—it subjects a man to great temptations to live above his income, and thus become dishonest; and if he have the courage to live economically, it subjects his family to ridicule.

I make all that money and it ain't enough. I gotta make more to help all the people around me.

It's ridiculous to have to base your relationship on money.

The bottom line is, I've got a wife and three kids. I've got bills I have to pay.

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes.

Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away.

It can never be bad to have a foundation as a man - a black man - in a time when women are dying for men. Women have started to become lovers of each other as a result of not having enough men.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. Oh my God, they're $4 million in the hole.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.