Nancy Friday Quotes

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

~ Nancy Friday

Always Anger Because Been Cut Face Off Pretty Pretty Face Rather Society Trained Women Wore Would

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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

~ Nancy Friday

Blaming Clinging Her Just Mother Negative Negative Way Still Way

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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

~ Nancy Friday

Adult Boy Denied Every Inside Little Male

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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

Backward Bill Children Debt Father Forward Goes Gratitude Mother Mother And Father Our Owe Parents Presented Us

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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

~ Nancy Friday

Get I See More Mother Myself Older See

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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.

~ Nancy Friday

About Clothes Hardest Hardest Thing Nice Off People Rather Say Something Take The Hardest Thing Thing World Yourself

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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

~ Nancy Friday

Birth Child Eyes Give Helped Me Mother Myself Saw Seeing Stopped Through Who Woman

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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

~ Nancy Friday

Asleep Dreams Expression Unconscious While

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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

~ Nancy Friday

Fantasy Out Run Something You

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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.

~ Nancy Friday

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I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

~ Nancy Friday

Attracted Better Biologically Given I Think Monogamy More Needs Our Person Society Than Think Works

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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.

~ Nancy Friday

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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.

~ Nancy Friday

Clean Did Equality Largest Last Longer Matters Men Really Sense Slate Us Want Wipe Women Years

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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

Always Because Been Duck Equally Fair Feminist Generation Men Odd Sure Why

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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

~ Nancy Friday

Any Beautiful Beauty Because Before Behavior Deny Even Feminism Had Handling Hate Me Women

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27 August, 1933

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