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Marya Mannes Quotes

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Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it’s position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it’s profit  (Marya Mannes Quotes) You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another  (Marya Mannes Quotes) 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  (Marya Mannes Quotes) When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both  (Marya Mannes Quotes) What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet  (Marya Mannes Quotes) A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available  (Marya Mannes Quotes) The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life  (Marya Mannes Quotes) By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth  (Marya Mannes Quotes) I don’t think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow the faucet leak, and learn to leave them so  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Wit has a deadly aim and it is possible to prick a large pretense with a small pin  (Marya Mannes Quotes) I don’t think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society  (Marya Mannes Quotes) 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  (Marya Mannes Quotes) All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction  (Marya Mannes Quotes) In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not  (Marya Mannes Quotes) It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better  (Marya Mannes Quotes) The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier  (Marya Mannes Quotes) 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 Quotes) The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason  (Marya Mannes Quotes) The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth  (Marya Mannes Quotes) People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are  (Marya Mannes Quotes) You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express  (Marya Mannes Quotes) A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being  (Marya Mannes Quotes) 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  (Marya Mannes Quotes) To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation  (Marya Mannes Quotes) The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit  (Marya Mannes Quotes) Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble  (Marya Mannes Quotes)
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