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Marya Mannes - From the Aging category:
By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Commerce category:
I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power, not only to reflect but to mold society. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Dreams category:
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Earth category:
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Gender category:
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, good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-groomed, and unaggressive. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Intellect category:
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Leadership category:
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Listening category:
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow / The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Money category:
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Sincerity category:
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Solitude category:
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures which are the incinerator of the spirit. (Marya Mannes)
Marya Mannes - From the Talent category:
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. (Marya Mannes)
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