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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.»
«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.»
Author: Nancy Friday
«Spontaneous and honest love admits errors, hesitations, and human failings; it can be tested and repaired. Idealized love ties us because we already intuit that it is unreal and are afraid to face this truth.»
Author: Nancy Friday
«Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.»
Author: Nancy Friday | Keywords: blaming, clinging
«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.»
Author: Nancy Friday
«Inside every adult male is a denied little boy»
Author: Nancy Friday | Keywords: adult male
«Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.»
Author: Nancy Friday
«It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that sustained me. You see, I had men confused with life. . . . You can't get what I wanted from a man, not in this life.»
Author: Nancy Friday