By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Married three times Mannes had one child who survived her. She hosted her own television show in 1959 "I speak for myself". Mannes publiMarya Mannesd a number of books of essays sharply and wittily critical of American society including More in Anger: Some Opinions Uncensored and Unteleprompted.

Marya Mannes (November 14 1904 - September 13 1990) was an American author and critic known for her caustic but insightful observations of American life.