List of Phyllis McGinley Quotes

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Phyllis McGinley
Total Quotes 104
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.
Sex This Generation Generations
Of course we women gossip on occasion. but our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. it is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Flower Boys College
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. oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything jane austen or saint theresa or even mrs. pankhurst ever dreamed. it is truly utopian. but utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.
Girl Sports Education
For little boys are rancorous when robbed of any myth, and spiteful and cantankerous to all their kin and kith. but little girls can draw conclusions and profit from their lost illusions.
Girl Children Boys
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. how petitions trickle in at christmas time!
Christmas Dimes Nickels
I have read that during the process of canonization the catholic church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although i have not been able to track down chapter and verse i like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.
Track Joy Catholic
Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
Shapes Satisfaction Neighbor
O, merry is the optimist, with the troops of courage leaguing. but a dour trend in any friend is somehow less fatiguing.
Optimism Troops Trends
The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. he needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
Exercise Animal Understanding
Women like other women fine. the more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. it is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.
Sex Women Feminine
One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. but it has its dangers. after a while the private heart begins to harden. we fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. charity withers in the incessant gale.
Heart Charity Letters
The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience tells him he has to be at home eating up his corn or packaging his beans for the freezer.
Summer Home Successful
  • Born: March 21, 1905
  • Died: February 22, 1978
  • Occupation: Author
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