All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday More Quotes by Nancy Friday More Quotes From Nancy Friday In a baby's first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul. Nancy Friday soulforeverbaby 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 ducksfeministmen 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 wipemenyears 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 mothermayyears Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. Nancy Friday unconsciousexpressiondream 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 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 goodfamilyagepeople 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 eyesmyselfmemother 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 mewomenbeautifulbeauty
