Marya Mannes - American Quotes

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If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

Marya Mannes

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. The great omission in American life is solitude.

Marya Mannes

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.

Marya Mannes