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Phyllis McGinley Quotes
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Life is the fruit she longs to hand you, ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you (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 (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Cocktail parties... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
There is satisfaction in seeing one’s household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Children from ten to twenty don’t want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure (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 (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 (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 (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Women are not men’s equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one’s neighbor (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us (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 (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 (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
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 human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
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 (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
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 always mutual path (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)
Men can’t be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen... They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling (Phyllis McGinley Quotes)