When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“Nancy, you know I’m not really good at this mothering business,” she says. “You’re a lovely child, the fault is not with you. But motherhood doesn’t come easily to me. So when I don’t seem like other people’s mothers, try to understand that it isn’t because I don’t love you. I do. But I’m confused myself. There are some things… — Nancy Friday Copy Share
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… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one.… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
“The primary rule is always that a mother can’t go wrong, ever, by encouraging her child after age one and a half to be… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval - as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It’s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates… — Nancy Friday Copy Share
