Nancy Friday Quotes
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.
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.
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
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.
To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.
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.
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.
In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.
To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.