Nancy Friday Quotes | Beyond Motive

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Nancy Friday, an American author, was a pioneering figure in the feminist movement, best known for her exploration of women's sexuality and desires in works like My Secret Garden. Her candid and unapologetic writing helped break down the societal taboos surrounding female sexuality and provided a platform for women's voices to be heard and understood. Friday's legacy continues to inspire women to embrace their individuality and to challenge societal norms, advocating for women's empowerment and sexual liberation as essential components of self-expression and equality.

"Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger."

Anger, Society, Women, Pretty

"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."

Family, Mother, Father, Gratitude, Children

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"Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still."

Family, Mother, Negative

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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."

People, Clothes, World

"When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself."

Family, Mother, Eyes, Woman

"The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself."

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