In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
Marya Mannesfear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.
Marya MannesThe more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
Marya MannesIt is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
Marya Mannes