Skip to content

But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.

— Frank Pittman Man Enough (1993)

Another quote →

More quotes by Frank Pittman

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 there.

Man Enough (1993)

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.

Man Enough (1993)

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 age.

How to Manage Mom and Dad (1994)

All Frank Pittman quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Frank Pittman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.