"Nancy Colbert Friday" is an American author who has written on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.

“Nancy Friday’s successful fantasy revelations (My Secret Garden, Forbidden Flowers) have seen her placed among the feminist erotic pioneers.” Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated and restrictive, and largely unrepresentative of many women’s true inner lives, and that openness about women’s hidden lives could help free women to truly feel able to enjoy being themselves. She asserts that this is not due to deliberate malice, but due to Group dynamics/social expectation, and that for women’s and men’s benefit alike it is healthier that both be able to be equally open, participatory and free to be accepted for who and what they are.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

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

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