Nancy Friday Mother Quotations

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.

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

Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

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

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.