Quote by Marya Mannes
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or genet

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

Other quotes by Marya Mannes

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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Solitude
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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

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communication
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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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Horses
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Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem

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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. – Margaret Mead

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American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. – Viva

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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. – Martin Henry Fischer

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You dont have to go looking for love when its where you come from. – Werner Erhard

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