Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. ..… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
We long for our father. We wear his clothes, and actually try to fill his shoes. . . . We hang on to him,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. .. . If… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with a couple… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
To insult a friend implies that you respect his masculinity enough to know he can take it without acting like a crybaby. The swapping… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity. — Frank Pittman Copy Share
In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys' bodies change and that… — Frank Pittman Copy Share
