Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes
Marya Manneswas an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Sec."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
business responsibility feelings
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.
loneliness being-alone space
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.
successful arrogance use
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent.
privilege moments awareness
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.
war heart men
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.
leaks
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
loss sisterhood men
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.
generosity strings deals
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
way honest accused
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
reality our-society accepted
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
art effort age
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.
horse car people
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
sound sincere
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
forgiveness poor
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.