"The men who are messing up their lives,……" — Frank Pittman
"The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity, but a grotesque exaggeration of what they think a man is. When we see men overdoing their masculinity, we can assume that they haven't beenraised by men, that they have taken cultural stereotypes literally, and that they are scared they aren't being manly enough."
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Frank Pittman
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26 Quotes by Frank Pittman
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
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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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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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No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
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