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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
Prejudice
Conviction
Pure
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
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I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
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In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.
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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
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Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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