Marriage was all a woman’s idea and for man’s acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday’s triumphant Cause. Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Phyllis McGinley Read Quote
