37 Quotations by Phyllis Mcginley
- 1. A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
- 2. A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use ...
- 3. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
- 4. Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in ...
- 5. Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages ...
- 6. Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and co ...
- 7. Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a ...
- 8. Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of t ...
- 9. I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality, but it is a myth willfully fostered an ...
- 10. It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.
- 11. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be gra ...
- 12. Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important oc ...
- 13. Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.
- 14. Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in t ...
- 15. Oh, high is the price of parenthood, and daughters may cost you double. You dare not forget, as you ...
- 16. Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation ...
- 17. Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
- 18. Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do he ...
- 19. Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. ...
- 20. Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders b ...
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