40 Quotes by Nancy Friday

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.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

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.

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

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.

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.

If a few lustful and erotic reveries make the housework go by "as if in a dream," why not?

Spontaneous and honest love admits errors, hesitations, and human failings; it can be tested and repaired. Idealized love ties us because we already intuit that it is unreal and are afraid to face this truth.

It was the promise of men, that around each corner there was yet another man, more wonderful than the last, that sustained me. You see, I had men confused with life. . . . You can't get what I wanted from a man, not in this life.