Women 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 McGinleyPeople are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
Phyllis McGinleyGossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
Phyllis McGinleyI am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
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