Warren Farrell

"There is almost no difference in the percentage of men versus women experiencing depression."

"Most women’s ideal is to not be sexual until nine conditions are met: physical attraction; respect; emotional compatibility; intelligence; singleness; success (or potential ); being asked out; being paid for; and the man risking rejection by initiating the first kiss…. Men want sex as long as only one condition is met—physical attraction."

"A week after you read this chapter, misandry will become apparent in commercials, in films, in everyday conversations. But the bias that is hardest to see is the bias we share."

"ITEM: The Mike Tyson trial. The hotel in which the jury is sequestered goes ablaze. Two firefighters die saving its occupants. The trial of Mike Tyson made us increasingly aware of men-as-rapists. The firefighters deaths did not make us increasingly aware of men-as-saviors. We were more aware of one man doing harm than of two men saving..."

"The male-female life expectancy gap has grown almost 400 percent."

"Ralph had lost real power by trying to gain the appearance of power. He was a leader. But he was following a program for leaders ; therefore, he was a follower... he was, as he put it, a high-level mediocre."

"Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash."

"For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I--survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II--a self-fulfillment focus... Loves definition is in a transition."

"In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love."

"We have entered The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man."

"Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my minds eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:"

"In Stage I, divorces were not allowed, so mens [sexual] affairs did not put womens economic security in jeopardy; in Stage II, affairs could lead to divorce, so mens affairs did place womens economic security in jeopardy. We did not want political leaders who would be role models for behavior that would put womens economic security in jeopardy."