Frank Pittman Quotes

Women rule our lives, don't they?

There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions. But in truth, the mother in many areas, in certain parts of India, the mother has very little decision-making power at all. The real decision-maker is the mother-in-law.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a woman to manage without manipulating? All of these things seem to me to be very much at the fore today, and were no less the case 2,000 years ago.

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Men are mostly raised by women. Most men have not seen an authoritative woman since they were 8. They associate women in authority with childhood.

A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

The woman is always the boss.

I feel 95 per cent of Indian boys are mama's boys and a few of them couldn't come out of their mother's shadows. Salman Khan is one of them. I feel one of the reasons he is unable to find a soul mate is he looks for his mother in every girl.

Male mastery in marriage is a social illusion, nurtured by women exhorting their creations to play and walk. At the emotional heart of every marriage is a pietà of mother and son.

Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

The fact is that men need women more than women need men; and so, aware of this fact, man has sought to keep woman dependent upon him economically as the only method open to him of making himself necessary to her. Since in the beginning woman would not become his willing slave, he has wrought through the centuries a society in which woman must serve him if she is to survive.

You may be a lady but you are still the man!

There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men.

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.