Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
