Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleyThere are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
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 the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.
Phyllis McGinley