One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
Phyllis McGinleyI am he / Who champions total liberty - / Intolerance being, ma'am, a state / No tolerant man can tolerate.
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