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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

“People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.”

People Ifs Mean Three Opportunity Growth Space Answers Poverty Dignity Increase Threat Population Crowds Decency Decrease Minus Population Growth

Author:Marya Mannes

“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.”

Ifs Art Made Age Process Effort Youth Maturity Fifty Mature Ages Is Just A Number

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“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.”

Ifs Wells Mother Wife Feminism Objects Feminist Manage Feminine Womens Rights Looking Good Good Writers Sculptors Good Mother Good Wife Well Dressed I Am Woman Personal Grooming

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“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.”

Ifs Knows Men Loss Money He Man Gains Weight Boring Obsessed Empowering Women Sisterhood Saving Money American Woman Fidgeting

Book:The Best of Marya Mannes

Source: The Best of Marya Mannes

“In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.”

Ifs Inspirational Reality Fellows Accepted Superiors Our Society

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.”

Ifs Knows Men Women Marvellous

Author:Marya Mannes

About the Author

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

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