God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
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.
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. …
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody. - Phyllis Mcginley
Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.
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.
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.
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.
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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