Warren Farrell

“In our society, the sound of men complaining is like nails on a chalkboard.”

“Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.”

“I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.”

“Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.”

“I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.”

“Men make more money but have lower net worths.”

“For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.”

“The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism.”

“And then in 1956 or 1957 my family went over to Europe and I moved over with them, and immediately people in Europe thought my perspective on that issue was 100% correct.”

“Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.”

“Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.”

“Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.”

“Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete.”

“I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.”

“Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.”

“Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.”

“Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.”

“I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.”

“A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.”

“I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.”