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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.
Marya Mannes
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Marya Mannes
Age: 85 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 14
Died: 1990
Died: September 13
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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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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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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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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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All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
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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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Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.
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