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Drawing on her own and other women's lives, Nancy Friday shows that to a woman's character the key lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of a woman's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her sexuality,…

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1 author picked My Mother/My Self as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Read this the night before my mother died, years after a therapist recommended it. No book is 100% timeless but I found it relevant and healing.

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