Quotes by Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday

After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman’s power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

Fall

Men

Sex

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

Effort

Paradox

Writing

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

Anger

Cutting

Friday

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

Friday

Mom

Mother

Do women dress for men or women? I’ve always wondered why that eternally provocative question is put in terms of approval – as if the heart of the matter, the answer, were indeed a question of approval by either sex. But the question is never satisfactorily answered because it is incorrectly posed. It’s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn’t matter where it comes from.

Heart

Men

Sex

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Dream

Expression

Unconscious

Fantasy isn’t something you run out of.

Fantasy

Running

For instance, in group therapy, I’ll have people stand up, show off, give a speech about themselves as though they’ve just died and have to give a eulogy. Even with this explicit permission – even an order – to say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They’d rather take their clothes off.

Clothes

Nice

Order

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.

Husband

Men

Moon

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

Monogamy

Needs

Thinking

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Anger

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Battle

Bed

Believe

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Cutting

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Ducks

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Ends

Envy

Errors

Expression

Eye

Failing

Fall

Fantasy

Feminist

Fields

Forever

Friday

Gratitude

Heart

Husband

Long Distance Relationship

Love You

May

Men

Mom

Monogamy

Moon

Mother

Mother Daughter

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People

Relationship

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Quotes by Nancy Friday

Nancy Friday

After sex, men fear too much intimacy; they want to separate again. Women want to talk, to continue the merging, melting fusion into one. Postcoital conversations keep the woman’s power alive. Through unconscious severance, by falling asleep, the man regains his self.

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

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

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

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Fantasy isn’t something you run out of.

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.

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

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