Nancy Friday Quotes

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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.

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

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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.

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When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

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All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.

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Women are learning that nobody gives you an orgasm, nobody makes you sexual, except yourself.

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The meaning of what it is to be a woman has never been more open-ended and therefore more filled with anxiety.

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Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.

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Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

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'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.

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For instance, in group therapy, I'll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they've just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission — even an order — to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

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In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.

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