Marya Mannes Quotes

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mold society.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

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.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

Who's kidding whom? What's the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Quart and full quart? Two-ounce and big two-ounce? What does Extra Long mean? What's a tall 24-inches? And what busy shopper can tell?

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.