“ A mother's hardest to forgive.Life is the fruit she longs to hand youRipe on a plate. And while you live,Relentlessly she understands you. Phyllis McGinley
“ 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
“ Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. Phyllis McGinley
“ Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy Phyllis McGinley
“ It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. Phyllis McGinley
“ Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! Phyllis McGinley
“ 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
“ Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. Phyllis McGinley
“ The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got hungry scolded God were egotistical or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them. Still they w… Phyllis McGinley
“ 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
“ Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. Phyllis McGinley
“ For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers got angry scolded God were egotistical or testy or impatient in their turns made mistakes and regretted them.… Phyllis McGinley
“ Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves. Phyllis McGinley
“ To be a housewife is ... a difficult a wrenching sometimes ungrateful job if it's looked on as only a job. Regarded as a profession it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let… Phyllis McGinley
“ The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled “Tolerance. Phyllis McGinley
