Warren Farrell Quotes

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

Women have to stand up to tremendous discriminatory practices, whether inherited traditions, whether imposed norms, male perceptions of power and control. The women always have to go through that and cannot take any privilege for granted.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

I was just nine years old when 'Straw Dogs' came out, so I can't really speak to the women of the time, but I can tell you that the women of 2011 are not put-upon, and they're not victims.

Not to be too doctrinaire, but we live in the patriarchy! And therefore anything explicitly associated with the female gender, including motherhood, needs to be defensively claimed, because it's either devalued or sentimentally idealized, but not supported. I so thoroughly believe that female human beings have worth that I don't feel the need to argue it, but I think that there's a part of me that very specifically wants to make space for those ideas to be centralized, if only for the moment.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

I don't think women are dumb.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

I don't think the very fact that I'm a woman makes me suddenly more vulnerable or more inherently used and abused.