| 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. |
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- Marya Mannes |
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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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- Marya Mannes |
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| 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. |
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- Marya Mannes |
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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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- Marya Mannes |
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| 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. |
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- Marya Mannes |
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