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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.

Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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The great omission in American life is solitude not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.
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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.
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Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
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Ribbons a-flutter and orchids a-tremble, Yearly the vigilant Daughters assemble, Affirming in fervid and firm resolutions Their permanent veto on all revolutions.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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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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on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung and without this mechanical pumping it dies.
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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
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Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
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All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.
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To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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.
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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
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In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.
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The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
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