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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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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Dreams
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Other Quotes from
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

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Feminism

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. – Sheila Rowbotham

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Feminism

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. – Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

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Feminism

Women belong in the house… and the Senate. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

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He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough. – Lao-Tzu

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Tennis was always sort of a – a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didnt want to see it for myself but I certainly didnt want millions of people to see it. – Andre Agassi

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