Warren Farrell Quotes

Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Men. We love them. We respect them. But we rarely get to objectify them.

I'd say I am partial to women.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.

I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy.

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

The way certain men treat women is influenced by the Internet a lot.

Men get laid, but women get screwed.

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because of the conventional conception of womanly purity, has been intimidated from conceding to men a deep insight into her erotic life experiences.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.