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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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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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The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.
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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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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.
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
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flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.
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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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Is there no end to this escalation of desire?
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In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
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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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You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
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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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A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.
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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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One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
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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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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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The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.
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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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Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.
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