Nancy Friday
Nancy Friday
Nancy Colbert Fridayis an American author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1933
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by "as if in a dream," why not?
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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.
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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.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.
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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.
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Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
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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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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.