Quote by Marya Mannes
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of e

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

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Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them. – Marya Mannes

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Women
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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. – Marya Mannes

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Feminism
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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

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Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. – Marsha Norman

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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. – E. V. Lucas

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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone. – Fred A. Allen

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Dreams

Men are the dreams of a shadow. – Pindar

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