Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business. - Phyllis Mcginley
Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
- Phyllis Mcginley
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. - Phyllis Mcginley
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession. - Phyllis Mcginley
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody. - Phyllis Mcginley
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. … - Phyllis Mcginley
Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. …
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 … - 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 …
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. - Phyllis Mcginley
Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature. - Phyllis Mcginley
The ability to forget a sorrow is childhood's most enchanting feature.
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 cha… - 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 cha…
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