All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.
Marya MannesAll great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Marya Mannesthe car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making
Marya Mannes