Sharon Olds
American poet and academic
Nancy Colbert Fridaywas an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women’s true inner lives, and that openness about women’s hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves.
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About the Nancy Friday
Nancy Colbert Fridaywas an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women’s true inner lives, and that openness about women’s hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to social expectation, and that for women’s and men’s benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.
7 Quotes by Nancy Friday
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When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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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.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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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 FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)
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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
Nancy FridayAmerican author (1933-2017)