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

#be grateful #becomes #grateful #idea #man

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#better #gall #seventy #than

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

#always #answer #bare #down #drying

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#intolerable #label #other #those #tolerance

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#chatter #gossip #human #human race #lovers

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

— Phyllis McGinley

#breaks #heart #like #silence #sting

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. ↗

— Phyllis McGinley

#am #body #certain #healing #i