Nancy Friday quotes

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. (Nancy Friday)
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. View quote
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. View quote
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To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off. View quote
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The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself. View quote
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together. View quote
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. View quote
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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. View quote
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of. View quote
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still. View quote
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men. (Nancy Friday)
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. View quote
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years. View quote
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Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society. View quote
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I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that. View quote
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Nancy Friday

Occupation: American Author
Born: August 27, 1933
Died: November 5, 2017
Quotes count: 15

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