Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.
Marya MannesHoary 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?
Marya MannesThe suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Marya MannesIn 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 Mannes