Marya MannesThinkers

Advertising is, in large part, responsible for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrist, pills, or the bottle.

America is a country in whose citizen's life the greatest omission is solitude, insofar as solitude is that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

A Border is 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.

Euthanasia is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

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.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

Horseback riding makes people look better than they are just as people in cars look worse than they are.

Nationalism 1s 2orders 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.

Patriotism is scratched across the hearts of men by strangers with a calm, judicial pen.

Solitude is that zone of time and space free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Television 1s 2rimary damage is that it blocks children from the necessary act of creating their own fantasy to live in and instead provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.