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Marya Mannes was an American author known for her profound insights into women's and gender issues. Her works often focused on the status and experiences of women in society, particularly their dual roles in the family and at work.

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“the incredible new medical technology has made it possible for highly disciplined teams of surgeons ... to keep stricken organisms alive even if the brain is irretrievably damaged or lung and heart incapable of functioning without mechanical help. Now it is not dust to dust, but human to vegetable.”

Ifs Humans Heart Made Helping Brain Technology Alive Team Incredibles Medical Dust Made It Vegetables Organisms Incapable Lungs Surgeons Dust To Dust Medical Technology

Author:Marya Mannes

“The right to choose death when life no longer holds meaning is not only the next liberation but the last human right.”

Humans Lasts Next Liberation Hold Me

Author:Marya Mannes

“the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making”

People Humans Race Half Car Diminish Outlines

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.”

Humans Fear Change Progress Losing Resistance Human Progress

Author:Marya Mannes

“flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.”

Men Needs Humans Sex Human Beings Fire Dating Sparks Salute Flirtation

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.”

Knows Men Mind Humans Heart Human Beings Experience Miracle Fulfillment Heart And Mind

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.”

Humans May Self Humanity Mankind Graves Aliens Humankind Restraint Temperament Self Restraint

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“The greatest miracle of all, the human being.”

Humans Human Beings Miracle

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

About the Author

Born: November 14, 1904
Died: September 13, 1990
Known for: Author
Quotes: 95

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