"No one, however powerful and successful, can function……" — Frank Pittman
"No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him."
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26 Quotes by Frank Pittman
Frank Pittman has 26 quotes on this site.
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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
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Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to…
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner…
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A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the…
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Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just…
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The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
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Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through…
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system…
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now?…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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