Frank Pittman Quotes

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• The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
• Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to the ones who will be…
• Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
• A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.
• A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything…
• Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child…
• The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
• Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
• Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction…
• Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new…
• Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
• No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
• We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great…
• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a…
• As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they…
• If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be…
• Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother…
• The more things we can laugh about, the more alive we become: The more things we can laugh about together, the more connected we become.
• Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.
• Bad marriages don't cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

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