Marya Mannes Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

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.

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

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.

The Republicans think they have a corner on morality.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

You cannot know what you do not feel.

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.