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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
Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired. -- Nancy Friday
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
To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. -- Nancy Friday
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. -- Nancy Friday
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. -- Nancy Friday
Separation is not the end of love; it creates love. -- Nancy Friday
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
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
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger. -- Nancy Friday
Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society. -- Nancy Friday
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself. -- Nancy Friday
Fantasy isn't something you run out of. -- Nancy Friday
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still. -- Nancy Friday
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
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. -- Nancy Friday
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
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
No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not. -- Nancy Friday
Who said "ladies" don't use words like "fuck" and "cunt," or that one doesn't use them around "ladies"? Maybe not when you're having lunch with a lady, but when a lady's fucking, she's not having lunch. -- Nancy Friday
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy. -- Nancy Friday
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
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. -- Nancy Friday
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better. -- Nancy Friday
It's Friday; you ain't got no job ... you ain't got shit to do -- Nancy Friday
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 his self. -- Nancy Friday
When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want. -- Nancy Friday
Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it. -- Nancy Friday