Marya Mannes
Birth Name: Maria von Heimburg Mannes
Pen Name: Sec
Birthdate: November 14, 1904
Birthplace: New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death: September 13, 1990
Occupation: Author, Critic, Journalist, and Poet
Profile: Hosted a television program called
I Speak for Myself in 1959.
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marya_Mannes
Number of Quotes: 2
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 earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.