I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

Nancy Friday

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

soul forever baby

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.

ducks feminist men

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.

wipe men years

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.

mother may years

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep. by Nancy Friday

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

unconscious expression dream

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.

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.

good family age people

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

eyes myself me mother

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

me women beautiful beauty