Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
About 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 Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women’s true inner lives, and that openness about women’s hidden lives could help free women to truly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.
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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.
American author (1933-2017)
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.
American author (1933-2017)
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
American author (1933-2017)
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
American author (1933-2017)
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
American author (1933-2017)
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.
American author (1933-2017)
Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.
American author (1933-2017)