Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
Phyllis McGinleyIt is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.
Phyllis McGinleyMeek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
Phyllis McGinleyGod 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.
Phyllis McGinley