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Nancy Friday
American
Author
Born:
Aug 27
,
1933
Died:
Nov 5
,
2017
Men
Mother
Myself
People
Society
Women
Related authors:
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Joyce Meyer
Mark Twain
Og Mandino
Zig Ziglar
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
Good
Family
Together
Age
People
World
Bad People
Old
Manners
Community
Think
Our
Way
Good Manners
Bad
Had
Miss
Days
Most
Sounds
Hold
Old Days
Old-Fashioned
Even
Thing
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
Gratitude
Mother
Father
Parents
Mother And Father
Our
Backward
Debt
Owe
Goes
Children
Us
Bill
Forward
Presented
When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy Friday
Myself
Me
Woman
Eyes
Mother
Birth
Saw
Seeing
Give
Through
Child
Stopped
Who
Helped
Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
Nancy Friday
Mother
Negative
Negative Way
Way
Blaming
Still
Clinging
Just
Her
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
Generation
Men
Fair
Equally
Sure
Because
Always
Duck
Feminist
Odd
Been
Why
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
Beautiful
Me
Women
Hate
Behavior
Beauty
Feminism
Before
Had
Because
Deny
Handling
Any
Even
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
Women
Equality
Men
Matters
Sense
Clean
Wipe
Longer
Years
Did
Want
Us
Really
Largest
Slate
Last
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday
Myself
Mother
Older
See
More
Get
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.
Nancy Friday
Yourself
People
World
Clothes
Nice
Say
About
Something
Rather
Take
Off
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
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