Quotes of Phyllis McGinley - somelinesforyou

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

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Housewives more than any other race deserve wellfurnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Housewives more than any other race deserve wellfurnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

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

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ 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 it took such months to get. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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 it took such months to get. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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… ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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… ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ 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… ”

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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… ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Phyllis McGinley

“ The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. ”

- Phyllis McGinley

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Phyllis McGinley

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

- Phyllis McGinley
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