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To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Housewife
Difficult
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Jobs
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Lost
Differently
Wrenching
Sometimes
Profession
Catalogue
World
Indeed
Catalogues
Ancient
Ungrateful
None
Noblest

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