Nancy Friday Quotes

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• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
• To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
• Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.
• No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.
• 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…
• 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…
• Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
• 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…
• When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
• The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.
• 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…
• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
• I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
• 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.

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