Oh, I know all about my ...

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.
 Nancy Friday

Quotes from the same author

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.
 Nancy Friday
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
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.
 Nancy Friday
When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.
 Nancy Friday
Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.
 Nancy Friday