List of Nancy Friday Quotes

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.

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.

Spontaneous Love Admits Errors, Hesitations And Human Failings. It Can Be Tested And Repaired.

Dreams Are The Expression Of The Unconscious While We Are Asleep.

In A Baby's First Months, The Earliest Patterns Of Intimacy Or Distrust Are Forever Grooved Into His Soul.

Inside Every Adult Male Is A Denied Little Boy.

If You Believe In The Maternal Instinct And Fail At Mother Love, You Fail As A Woman. It Is A Controlling Idea That Holds Us In An Iron Grip.

For Instance, In Group Therapy, I'll Have People Stand Up, Show Off, Give A Speech About Themselves As Though They've Just Died And Have To Give A Eulogy. Even With This Explicit Permission - Even An Order - To Say Something Nice About Themselves, This Is The Hardest Thing In The World For People To Do. They'd Rather Take Their Clothes Off.

I Think Biologically We Are Attracted To More Than One Person, But Given Society And Our Needs, Monogamy Works Better.

When Is Enough Enough? In Envy's Eyes, Enough Never Is. Somebody Else Always Has Something We Want.

Separation Is Not The End Of Love; It Creates Love.

All My Writing Has Been An Effort To Sort Out The Paradoxes Of My Life.