Phyllis McGinley Quotes

“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.”

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

“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.”

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

“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”

“Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.”

“Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant cause.”

“It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.”

“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 none persuade us differently or the world will be lost indeed.”

“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. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.”