Quote by Marya Mannes (1904-1990)

• The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

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

• The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

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

• Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

• Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.