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Letter "P" » 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.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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down the stairs, drying, importunate, locked, rooms, shoulders, sisters, stair, telephone, The Mirror
«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.»
«Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.»
«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.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
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parenthood
«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.»
«Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.»
Author: Phyllis McGinley
«Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all»
«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 It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial.»
«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.»
«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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