Quotes by Frank Pittman

Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, except be a father.

Father

Marriage

Men

A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother.

Boys

Long

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 he needs to know about life.

Children

Men

Parent

A real man doesn’t have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed is going to be great enough for him to ransom himself completely, and he may always be in his mother’s debt. If he understands that . . . he won’t have to feel guilty, and he won’t have to please her completely. He can go ahead and be nice to her and let her be part of his life.

Mother

Real

Running

All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don’t know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say “Attaboy,” to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.

Father

Rain

War

As a guy develops and practices his masculinity, he is accompanied by an invisible male chorus of all the other guys, who hiss orcheer as he attempts to approximate the masculine ideal, who push him to sacrifice more of his humanity for the sake of his masculinity, and who ridicule him when he holds back. The chorus is made up of all the guy’s comrades and rivals, his buddies and bosses, his male ancestors and his male cultural heroes–and above all, his father, who may have been a real person in his life, or may have existed only as the myth of the man who got away.

Father

Hero

Real

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 strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

Boys

Father

Violence

At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.

Believe

Home

Mother

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Father

Heart

Men

Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

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Husband And Wife

Marriage

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Quotes by Frank Pittman

Frank Pittman

. . . in the end, there is nothing a man can do that a woman can’t, except be a father.

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 he needs to know about life.

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 strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence.

At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.

Bad marriages don’t cause infidelity; infidelity causes bad marriages.

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