. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can't, except be a father. — 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
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Becoming Father the Nurturer rather than just Father the Provider enables a man to fully feel and express his humanity and his… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a… — 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
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
Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's… — 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
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
Parents have subtle ways of humbling you, of reminding you of your origins, perhaps by showing up at the moment of your… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and… — 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
The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how… — 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
What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being… — 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
Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn't turn them into grown-ups. Parents who… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents vary in their sense of what would be suitable repayment for creating, sustaining, and tolerating you all those years, andwhat circumstances… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We become male automatically because of the Y chromosome and the little magic peanut, but if we are to become men we… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The things… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
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
When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Our father has an even more important function than modeling manhood for us. He is also the authority to let us relax… — 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
The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There are great advantages to seeing yourself as an accident created by amateur parents as they practiced. You then have been left… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
