Quotes by Nancy Friday

• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
• When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
• 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.
• 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.
• Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
• Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
• The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.