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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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“In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.”

Men Firsts May Lasts Race Greed Avarice

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).”

Men Mean Might Given Authority Direct Dare Trinity Generalities

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“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?

“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.”

“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.”

Men Environment Land Forests Hills Beach Lanes Stigma Meadows Debris

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.”

Men Mind Pleasure Source Majors Intellectual Instruments Entertainment

Author:Marya Mannes

“Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?”

Men Ideas Names Cases Identity Husband Surrender Heritage Expecting

Author:Marya Mannes

“All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.”

People Men Sometimes Seems Voice Streets New York He Man Addiction Obsession Clamor Stimulants

Author:Marya Mannes

“When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.”

Men Lifts Vulnerability Cherish Yoke Women Strength

Author:Marya Mannes

“What is asserted by a man is an opinion; what is asserted by a woman is opinionated. A woman with ideas and the ability to express them is something of a social embarrassment, like an unhousebroken pet.”

Men Ideas Social Ability Opinion Pet Embarrassment Opinionated

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.”

Men Rooms Doors Available Desks Closed Doors Working Man

Book:But Will it Sell?

Source: But Will it Sell?

“No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.”

Men Firsts Christian Faith Speak Christianity Fellows Clean Bombs Faith In God Cheat

Author:Marya Mannes

“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

“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

“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.”

Men Heart War Turns Lines Watches Red Calm Stranger Borders Patriotism Maps Pens Dread Ink Judicial

Author:Marya Mannes

“Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.”

Men Reason Pleasure He Man Our Society Prime Fellowship Good Nature Deviate

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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