Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.
Phyllis McGinleySeventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
Phyllis McGinleyA mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
Phyllis McGinleyWomen are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
Phyllis McGinleyI do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctrine of this myth-ridden age.
Phyllis McGinley