Nancy Friday's Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.