Marya Mannes
Mannes lived most of her life in New York City, where she was born.[1] Her brother was musician Leopold Mannes. Her parents, Clara (Damrosch) Mannes and David Mannes, founded the Mannes College of Music in New York. Her maternal grandfather was conductor Leopold Damrosch, and her maternal uncles were conductors Walter Damrosch and Frank Damrosch. Her father was Jewish; her mother was from a mostly Lutheran German family (and was of part Jewish descent through her own grandfather).[2]
Mannes was an editor at Vogue and later wrote prolifically for the magazines The Reporter and The New Yorker. Mannes published a number of books of essays, sharply and wittily critical of American society, including More in Anger: Some Opinions, Uncensored and Unteleprompted. She was a much-sought-after social commentator on radio and television.She hosted her own television show in 1959, "I speak for myself".[citation needed]
Other books by Mannes included Subverse (1959), a satirical verse, Out of My Time (1971), an autobiography, and two novels, Message From a Stranger (1948), and They (1968).
Married three times, Mannes had one child (David R. J. Blow) who survived her.
She died in San Francisco, California. (Wiki)
“People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.”
“Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.”
“The earth we abuse and the living things we killwill, in the end, take their revenge; for inexploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”