Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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• Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys…
• Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the…
• Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made…
• Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
• The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
• Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
• The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
• Time is the thief you cannot banish.
• The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.
• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the…
• A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
• Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
• The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once…
• These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
• The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns,…
• Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you thought you could, that youth is…
• Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or…
• Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
• In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but…
• Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

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