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Nancy Friday
American
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About the author
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy Friday,
American
Author
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,
American
Author
#Woman
#Mother
#Eyes
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,
American
Author
#People
#World
#Clothes
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.
Nancy Friday,
American
Author
#Children
#Mother
#Parents
#Father
#Gratitude
#Debt
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday,
American
Author
#Mother
#Negative
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy Friday,
American
Author
#Pretty
#Anger
#Society
#Women
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday,
American
Author
#Mother