After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman's power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains… — 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
