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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

~Nancy Friday

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

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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 27th, 1933

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