Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
Phyllis McGinleyPraise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinleyGetting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleySisters 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.
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