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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

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Acceptance American Author

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.

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American Author Babies

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

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American Author

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all

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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 a plague and a trouble. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 a plague and a trouble.

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Childhood Parents And Parenting

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

The system -- the American one, at least -- is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

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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 both sophisticated and provincial. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 both sophisticated and provincial.

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Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

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Women

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.

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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 poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

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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 not only ugly but passÃÂ©. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 not only ugly but passÃÂ©. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

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American Author

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of privilege, the distinguishing feature of a truly urbane culture. Out of the cave, the tribal teepee, the pueblo, the community fortress, man emerged to build himself a house of his own with a shelter in it for himself and his diversions. Every age has seen it so. The poor might have to huddle together in cities for need's sake, and the frontiersman cling to his neighbors for the sake of protection. But in each civilization, as it advanced, those who could afford it chose the luxury of a withdrawing-place.

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Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable

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In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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American Author

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

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Wit

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

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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 fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

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American Author

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such /as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association /the going will be hard indeed. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such /as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association /the going will be hard indeed.

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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. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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.

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Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

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American Author

When blithe to argument I come, / Though armed with facts, and merry, / May Providence protect me from / The fool as adversary, / Whose mind to him a kingdom is / Where reason lacks dominion, / Who calls conviction prejudice / And prejudice opinion. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

When blithe to argument I come, / Though armed with facts, and merry, / May Providence protect me from / The fool as adversary, / Whose mind to him a kingdom is / Where reason lacks dominion, / Who calls conviction prejudice / And prejudice opinion.

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Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

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American Author Success

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

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American Author Praise

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a mans. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

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I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.

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Equality Men And Women

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 not only ugly but passÃÂ½. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 not only ugly but passÃÂ½. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Phyllis McGinley

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 gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.

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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

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Body

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

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American Author

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

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American Author

The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

The knowingness of little girls hidden underneath their curls.

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Girls

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

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American Author

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.

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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom. Let them do what they are best at. While we scrawl interoffice memos and direct national or extranational affairs, men could spend all their time inventing wheels, peering at stars, composing poems, carving statues, exploring continents -- discovering, reforming, or crying out in a sacramental wilderness. Efficiency would probably increase, and no one would have to worry so much about the Gaza Strip or an election.

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Men

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.

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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 not only ugly but passT. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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 not only ugly but passT. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

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Sin

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. - Phyllis McGinley Quotes

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

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American Author

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