Author: Nancy Friday

Quotes

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

- Nancy Friday

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

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

- 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.

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

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

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

- Nancy Friday

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 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

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