Marya Mannes
Marya Mannes
Marya Manneswas an American author and critic, known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life. Mannes also wrote under the pen name of, "Sec."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 November 1904
CountryUnited States of America
war heart men
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink across the map turn red.
leaks
The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
loss sisterhood men
If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
generosity strings deals
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
way honest accused
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.
reality our-society accepted
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
art effort age
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.
horse car people
People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.
sound sincere
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
forgiveness poor
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
women lovers seduction
All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
revenge abuse environmental
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.
art men discovery
The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.
beach men land
Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.