Quote by Marya Mannes
The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, f

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. – 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. – Marya Mannes

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Feminism
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People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are. – Marya Mannes

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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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The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. – Louis D. Brandeis

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We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? – Morris Adler

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Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon. – Matt Groening, The Simpsons, spoken by the character Lisa Simpson

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There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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