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Marya Mannes

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Marya Mannes is one of those voices you encounter and immediately want to hear more from. Marya Mannes's observations on Women are as sharp as their thoughts on Romantic, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Our collection holds 10 quotes from Marya Mannes, each offering a different angle on Women, Romantic, Money, Intelligence, and Great. Start here and see if you agree: "In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."

“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

Communication

All Quotes by Marya Mannes

“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

Communication

“For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.”

— Marya Mannes

Alone

“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

Intelligence

“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”

— Marya Mannes

Women

“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

Future

“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.”

— Marya Mannes

Money

“In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.”

— Marya Mannes

Attitude

“The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.”

— Marya Mannes

Dreams

“All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.”

— Marya Mannes

Great