Warren Farrell Giving Quotations

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don't understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs...) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail [than women who fail].

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.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.