My Secret Garden Quotes

“No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

“Who said “ladies” don’t use words like “fuck” and “cunt,” or that one doesn’t use them around “ladies”? Maybe not when you’re having lunch with a lady, but when a lady’s fucking, she’s not having lunch.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden

“Do women dress for men or women? I’ve 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. It’s disapproval, the fear of it, that motivates most women, and with disapproval it doesn’t matter where it comes from.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

“Rape does for a woman’s sexual fantasy what the first martini does for her in reality: both relieve her of responsibility and guilt.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden

“would be like if he were to fondle and kiss my breasts with his moustache rubbing across my nipples.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

“I think variety is the key to the whole thing, and the reason so many marriages go stale is that they just do the same thing over and over.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies

“My latest and most unusual fantasy is that I am both a woman and a man and that I am having sexual relations with myself. I imagine that I am able to give myself all the sexual satisfaction I have ever desired. It is a complicated fantasy to work out, but I think eventually it will work.”
― Nancy Friday, My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies