Marya Mannes Quotes

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  • You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

  • Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

    Way   Honest   Accused  
    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.

    Faith   Christian   Men  
  • A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • [The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

    Ocean   Fighting   Self  
  • Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

    Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”
  • All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

    Mother   Wife   Feminist  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • Infants are interesting only to their parents.

    Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”
  • Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.

    War   Heart   Men  
  • People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

    Horse   Car   People  
    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

  • Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle.

    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

  • I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

    Men   Intellectual   Mind  
  • The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

    Peace   Self   Would Be  
  • the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.

    Team   Heart   Technology  
  • The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.

  • In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.

    Men   Race   Greed  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

    Beach   Men   Land  
    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.

    Art   Philosophy   Sight  
  • People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.

  • Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

    Husband   Men   Names  
  • Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

    Money   Eye   Desire  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

    Mean   Two   Differences  
    Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”
  • Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.

    Doe   Moments   Reducing  
    Marya Mannes (1948). “Message from a Stranger: A Novel”
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