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Nancy Friday [1933-0] American

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Nancy Colbert Friday is an American author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.
“Nancy Friday’s successful fantasy revelations have seen her placed among the feminist erotic pioneers.”

Society, Age, Anger, Beauty, Dreams, Equality, Family

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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.		101
I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.	Society	102
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.	Age, Family	103
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.	Anger, Society	104
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.		105
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.		106
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.		107
Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.	Beauty	108
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.		109
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.		110
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.		111
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.	Dreams	112
Fantasy isn't something you run out of.		113
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.		114
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.	Equality	115

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