Marya Mannes Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Men, Ideas, Pet

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• 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.

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  Men, Yoke, Cherish

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• television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

  Marya Mannes

  Experts, Television, Radio

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• I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

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  Party, Writing, Thinking

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration and diversity and change. It's impossible to have vision in art or government without risk, or the boldness and courage which produce risk. And this - in spite of what they call modern Republicanism - is the antithesis of true Republican thinking.

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  Art, Thinking, Government

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• The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

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  Party, Thinking, Political

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• 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.

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  Mother, Wife, Feminist

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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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.

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  Party, Political, Holding On

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

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  Ethics, Morality, Indifference

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• 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.

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  Sarcastic, Business, Responsibility

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• 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.

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  Men, Intellectual, Mind

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• Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part of an image of infinite grace and grandeur which is creation.

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  Grace, Infinite, Great Music

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• 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.

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  Team, Heart, Technology

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

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  Art, Effort, Age And Youth

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

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  Happiness, Intelligent, Emotional

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

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  Peace, Self, Would Be

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• I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

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  Business, Real, Thinking

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

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  Judgment, Cynicism, Ultimate

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• 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.

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  Men, Doors, Rooms

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• 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.

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  War, Heart, Men

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• It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

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  Privilege, Moments, Awareness

  Marya Mannes (1971). “Out of my time”

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• You cannot know what you do not feel.

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  Feelings, Feels, Knows

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• The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

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  Miracle, Humans, Human Beings

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

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  Leaks

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, Miracle

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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