Do women dress for men or women? Iโve 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. Itโs disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesnโt matter where it comes from.
Nancy FridayWhen I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
Nancy FridayThe 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 FridayI 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.
Nancy Friday