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Top 20 Nancy Friday Quotes (2025 Update)

Nancy Friday Quote: “Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.”

1. “Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “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.”

2. “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

Nancy Friday Quote: “If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

3. “If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.”

4. “Sexuality is the great field of battle between biology and society.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

5. “When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.”

6. “Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.”

7. “To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.”

8. “Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.”

10. “Spontaneous love admits errors, hesitations and human failings. It can be tested and repaired.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Fantasy isn’t something you run out of.”

11. “Fantasy isn’t something you run out of.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “The primary rule is always that a mother can’t go wrong, ever, by encouraging her child after age one and a half to be as individuated and separated as possible. If she was not as good a mother before as she would like to have been, she must get over her guilty desires to overcompensate, and place herself on the side of the child’s developing.”

13. “The primary rule is always that a mother can’t go wrong, ever, by encouraging her child after age one and a half to be as individuated and separated as possible. If she was not as good a mother before as she would like to have been, she must get over her guilty desires to overcompensate, and place herself on the side of the child’s developing.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “When is enough enough? In envy’s eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.”

14. “When is enough enough? In envy’s eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “In a baby’s first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.”

16. “In a baby’s first months, the earliest patterns of intimacy or distrust are forever grooved into his soul.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.”

17. “I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.”

18. “No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”

19. “All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.”

20. “Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.”

21. “Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.”

— Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday Quote: “Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.”

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

— Nancy Friday

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