Nancy Friday Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.”

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

“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 older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.”

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

“I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.”

“Fantasy isn't something you run out of.”